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Show BRITISH LIE! 1 BATTLE Wmi U-BDftT Also Fires Three Shots at American Submarine, but Fails to Score Hit. AN ATLANTIC PORT, July 2S. (By the Associated Press.) Passengers on a British liner arriving here today said that last Friday their shin gave battle to a German U-boat 750 miles off the New Jersey coast and last night fired three shots at what was believed to be an American submarine. Apparently neither undersea c ra ft w,a s hit. This liner was one of several which was being convoyed with the giant Jus-ticia Jus-ticia .when that vessel was torpedoed and sunk off the north Irish coast on July 20. According to the passengers, a torpedo which hit the Justicia passed astern of their own ship, and narrowly missed another an-other merchantman before finding Its goal. E. H. Butt of Augusta, Ga., a brother of Major Archibald Butt, once a'de to President Taft, who lost his life ctfie Titanic, described the liner's three t , counters with submarines. "The first, he said, came on July 19, two days after the merchantmen, convoyed con-voyed by destroyers, left a British port. The booming of guns and the shrieking- ofy whistles brought the passengers to deck. "The sea was smooth as we took our stations at the lifeboats," said Mr. Butt. "We crowded on all steam and zigzagged zig-zagged as, in company with our convoying convoy-ing destroyers, we left the scene in a race to save ourselves. We heard during dur-ing the night that the Justicia and destroyers de-stroyers were fighting the U-boats, and later learned that her struggle to survive had failed." Mr. Butt said that the ship met no more submarines until last Friday at noon, when 7T0 miles off the NcR Jersey coast, the call to quarters was again sounded, and the ship's guns begun be-gun firing at an object apparently several sev-eral miles away. "This was a supersubmarine," said llr. Butt. "It made no attempt to come nearer, near-er, and, after firing solid shot, which fel. short at least 1000 yards, began to firt shrapnel." The exchange of shots lasted about forty-five minutes, according to Mr: Butt, w ho said the U - boa t then submerged and was not seen again. At the same time, he said, another submarine sub-marine engaged a British freighter Ir. the same waters, and it was thought tht U-boat was sunk. "If so, the Britisher got a good one,' said llr. Butt, "for these boats are su-persubmarin.es su-persubmarin.es which depend more on de struction by gunfire than by torpedoes. "We got our next shock last night, he said. "In a smooth sea a big submarine sub-marine broke water not three miles awaj and at once our gunners fired three shot: at the boat, while our commander sit-nailed sit-nailed 'Who are you?' "The shots foil close to the boat anc we could see the flutter of flags, but nc t i sign of a flag to denote the national i of the U-boat. Finally our commander j signalled to, the gun crews to cease fir-, fir-, ing, and we came on, leaving the subma- rme on the surface. Rumor on boarc had it that the latest U-boat was as American." ! Among1 th? passengers were Captai" j John H. Pratt and the crew of thirty-I thirty-I seven from the American steamship ' George L. Eaton, which was abandoned j June 22 in European waters after sh I sprang a leak. |