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Show U-BOAT ATTACKS BRITISH STEAMER Submersiules Operating Off United States Coast Number Twenty, According Ac-cording to Hamburg Story. NEW YORK, July 27. A British freight steamer was attacked by a German Ger-man submarine off the Atlantic coast early today, according to reports received re-ceived in insurance circles here. The position of the ship, which was sending send-ing out B. O. S. calls, was said to be near the regular trans-Atlantic steamship steam-ship lane. GENEVA. July 27. A dispatch received re-ceived at Basel, Switzerland, today from Hamburg, says: ' More than twenty large submarines subma-rines are now operating off the American coast. The number of submarines in the Atlantic has been increased by 30 per cent in the last seven months, i |