Show YANKEE SKIPPER RESENTS ATTACK Commander r of f Gushing Cushing C ClIs Calls lIs I Act Act- of Airman in Dropping Bombs Dastardly Philadelphia May 1 19 Capt Lars Larsen of or tit the Am American oil tanker Gushing arrived here toda today with his ship and submitted to his emploYers employers em em- a report dealing with v the at attack attack at- at tack made mado on the tire Cushing Gushing on April 28 b by a Gei German lan aeroplane which dropped three bombs oile one of or which struck the rail of or tire the vessel In this report tho capt captain ln refers to the bomb dropping as a dastardly act a deliberate attempt to sink shirk an unarmed unarmed un un- armed vessel an and murder the members of the tire crew A cOP copy of or this tins report will whit be forwarded cd to the thc state department department depart depart- ment at nt Washington Tho German airman swept In narrow narrow nar riar- row circles over over- the tanker er tI trying n to get direct directly over the funnel runnel with the Idea apparently of oC dropping a bomb bom down own It and atHI wrecking her hel engine room the tho captain say says The el crew craw quickly beat bent a retreat to the tire forecastle an and no ire one Was ivas hurt b by bythe the tile explosion of ot th bomb which did l strike the tire Cushing The attack occurred while the Gushing C was about twenty five miles miles' from Antwerp ald eight cIrt miles from the thc North orth Hinder cl lightship It H was n. n near ar ari 7 i o'clock In iii tire tIle Q ig but the sun hart had barel barely touched the tire horizon and there was 3 ample III If light hl for 01 the tire officers and crew to Ui sec every even detail of ot the tho at attack attack It- It tack and md also for the pilot of or tho tire bi biplane lii- lii I- I plane piano to see the words Gushing Now ow York United Unite States Staten of ot America painted paint ed cd on each side of th tire the vessel in letter cl eight ht feet hl high i and amI to note noto the tire Stars and antI Stripes at the thc masthead and antI the tho 0 |