Arizona republican., 1919-01-27
MYSTERY OF STRANGE
 SUB ON NEW ENGLAND
 COAST IS CLEARED UP
Destroyer of Jacob Jones Was U53 Statement of Pris Muller and Fulcher-Clear Up Many Snkings- End of Diver Warfare Graphically Told In Report of Navy Department Last Night

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The Amer ican destroyer Jacob Jones, sunk off the Irish coast by a German submarine December 6, 1917 was torpedoed by the U-53. the vessel which visited Newport, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1916, and later harried allied mer- chant shipping off the New England coast This fact was disclosed in the report of Lieutenants r. l.. Muller and J. r. Fulcher, |. $. N, who were cap tured by the submarine U-15e, which sank the cargo transport, Ticonderoga, September 30, 1918, and released when the German submarine flotilla was surrendered November 24, after they had spent nearly two months on the submersible in American waters and at the German submarine base at Kiel.
 The report made public tonight by the navy department showed also that tfNe German officer commanding. the U-53 when the Jones was destroyed Captain von Schrader, was aboard the boat when it was at Newport He there saw Lieutenant Commander David Worth Bagley, a nephew of the wife of Secretary Daniels, who commanded the Jacob Jones. Won Schrader told the captured American officers that he had recognized Bagley in the dory of the sinking destroyer. and sent out wire less call for aid before leaving the scene. A note appended to the report. presumably by Vice Admiral Sims, said such a call was picked up at Queens town, but that its origin had been a mystery.
 152 To American Waters
 The U-152, which after sinking th. Ticonderoga and taking Muller and Fulcher aboard, continued to Amer can waters to raid shipping, encount- cred the -53 on her way back to Kiel after all German submarines had been recalled near the end of the war. Be sides telling of the destruction of the Jacob Jones, Captain yon Schrader said that six weeks earlier in the Bris- tol channel, he had sunk an American escort ship, believed to have. been th, former coast guard cutter Tampa which went down with all hands anC had fired a torpedo at the American scout cruiser Chester. The Tampa was sunk last September 26. and thu navy department said there was n. evidence that the U-53 was in the vicinity. The Chester was not hit. The Ticonderoga, which was going to France with a cargo of railroad car. and 113 army personnel in addition t( a naval crew had fallen behind hel convoy in misty weather, when sht was attacked with shrapnel fired b! the U-152, which fired forty shots demolishing the radio house and lillin; | four members of the Six-inch gun crew ! before the cruiser Galveston hove il l sight and drove the enemy off Nor 1 than an hour later. the U-152 reap | peared and pounded the Ticonderog; with forty more shots, which final, reached the engine and fire rooms | The order to abandon ship was giver l but a sheet hoisted in the rigging as sign of surrender was not needed b 1 the submarine, and according to tn ! report, Fulcher waved a pillow. sli | from the deck. The captain of tn
 transport had ben wounded, as ha
 Fulcher and Muller, the executive of ficer, and Butcher, who was first as
 sistant engineer, agreed there wa
 nothing to do but surrender, as man
 of the men aboard had been killed.
 Leave Men to Drown
 After the Ticonderoga went dow the U-152, after fishing out barrels , potatoes and onions,'' from the floatin
 wreckage, picked up Muller, who wa
 taken for the commander of the shil
 and later Fulcher. The report sai
 that Captain Franz of the, U-boat wa
 under the impression that the aftt
 gun (of the transport) had continue
 firing after the sheet had been hoiste
 Many wounded F1en on rafts or
 the water pleaded with the German to be taken aboard, as they had I
 food or water or chance of life, if le
 to their fate. but Franz told them I
 had room for no more,r and cast the
 adrift.
 Muller and Butcher make no con
 plaint of their treatment aboard u , submarine, which was outward bour
 from Kiel for the American coast, ( . her second trip, and which continue , into the gulf stream on the lookout f ? allied shipping. First news of u $ armistice negotiations came by rad l with the message: Engage men-o
 war only The merchant war is ended t The Americans were told by the Ge ) Illdn OIIlceTS tHdl tillS Was lNe TIT , act of our new government l On October F, however, the U-1 , encountered and sank the Norwegi; I bark Stifinder, off the New Foundlal ] coast, leaving the crew in their boat = 1000 miles from land
 Glad it Was Over Two days later an unarmed sh
 was fired at. but a cruiser or destroy |, drove the U-boat under and dropp U depth bombs. Several duels with arm , ships occurred later. the results < a which the prisoners did not learn. al = on October 20 came a radio order, "; f submarines return to Kiel, which " obeyed.
 f. It was not until November Il tn the U-152 reached the North sea mi : barrage, through which it passed 2 the surface. The following day Ca Q tain Franz announced that the armi V tice had been signed and the war W
 over.
 n All hands seemed pleased,'' the I e port said.
 o That night in the Skagerack, the :" 5S encountered. and the story of t
 sinking of the Jacob Jones was heal
 The last report from the U-53 was tt
 she was headed for Swedish waters