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Show of shells that dropped on and all about the tug' and her barges. A lucky shot nr-vt s.Tt1f tho In or harw Alpnnwhilo liitt. - on the tug had set her afire, but she stood by her barges to the finish. Tile third barge in line, the smallest of all, proved a hard mark, and the German gunners occupied half an hour in disposing dis-posing of her. Whole Cape Alarmed. By this time the firing had alarmed the whole cape, and cries for assistance were sent broadcast. No American warships war-ships appeared to be in the vicinity, and the exhibition of German gunnery went on methodically. Two hydro-airplanes rose from the station at Chatham, and, flying low, darted toward the enemy as though to attack. It could not be seen that they dropped any bombs, but the Germans evidently evi-dently anticipated an attack from the air, for they stopped firing and elevated their guns against the hydroplanes ; they did not fire, however, and a moment later submerged. sub-merged. The planes circled about where the enemy was last seen and then tinned their noses toward their station. Sca;; had they reached shore when the L'-boaJ reappeared and resumed her attack on the tug and the one light barge remaining remain-ing afloat. Both the tug and this barge were in flames, and were held where they were by the sunken barges, one of which, w-ith a load of stone, made an effective anchor. Tow Abandoned. When the firing began the crews lost no time in abandoning the tow. Each of the lour barges had one small boat intended in-tended to- carry only five persons, and all tlie craft were greatly overloaded. In addition, the occupants were exposed to constant danger from shell fire. Several merchant craft were in the vicinity, and regardless of the menace to themselves, went to the rescue of the crews and towed Hie small boats to shore. The men of the Perth Amboy, who stood by their ship until it was ablaze from bow to stern, were taken off in lifeboats from the coast guard sta I inn Tne L-boat was still trying to find vulnerable vul-nerable spots in the Perth Ambov and the remaining barge when the hvdro-airplanes again approached. At sight of the planes the submarine again submerged and did not reappear. Boy Shews Bravery. ' h9 Jhre6 women and five children did not suffer physical harm, though one of the women, who had been making her w,, i!'P V sea- tinted after she had chfirtrnaCed ln a sma" boat- Among the Se n, Was aP, "-year-old boy, who at the I rst sign of battle grabbed an American Ameri-can f.g and shook it defiantly toward the rnM?t 8 lac ,was still clinging to the he hnH i d Pudi' above his head, when he landed on the beach lonTi1cbr!Ilan commander either took a long chance or had an exact chart of the OH ? Z"r n nSha,'tS l"ing nd taE o r the cape. It would be impc,ible for him to submerge to any great k-pth and which undersea boats might be exuected to operate. , Tonight he was beiii-- hun ed by patrol vessels and other warcrafl ATTACK UPON THE LITTLE VESSELS GIVEN IN DETAIL ORLEANS, Mass., July 21. All enemv submarine attacked a towboat off the easternmost east-ernmost point of Cape Cod today, sank three barges, set a fourth and their tu-on tu-on fire and dropped four shells on the mainland The action lasted an hour, and was unchallenged except for two hydroplanes hydro-planes trom the Chatham aviation station, sta-tion, which circled over the U-boat causing caus-ing her to submerge for only a moment to reappear and resume firing "omenc. The crew of the tow, numbering forty-one, forty-one, and including three women and f ve children, escaped amid the shell fire in lifeboats. Several were wounded, bit on one seriously. This happened to be Jo n LotONlch an Austrian, of the tug crew Hs right arm was torn away near the shoulder by a shell fragment i uaiges, in tow of the tu- Perth Amboy of the Lehigh Valley railroad ot bound from Gloucester for S 'vort One was loaded with stone, but the othe,4 were light, being on their re rip after bringing coal to New England. Attack Without Warning. The attack was without warning -i only the poor marksmanship "of In! ' Ge man gunners permitted the Escape ft miles6 SZZFtf co three one mile inland. Three other ,!V' buned themselves in t'h of ",! IrUurr not permitted. 0 ,!f t,0n3' was obtained from offVcta am eis'on 1?'"" ho P.otovleh and another , the the barges, both of whJse "rn " 'n-nn,L' "f injured were removed to a ,, '; ' ,0Cn pltal. Later Polovlcb w--,s li 1 0 ton. Some of the surV r'e".h slecprng when the K-boa apnea, "Vr0 ashore, in night clothing , pca,od. funic Shell Strikes Barge shore at II o'elo -l ,Ts , ' from l'-boat of an c-Mm i l 'h.. ,,e row ),ly- o', i' XUi.a' '. her guns on the tow ,ra:'"''l shell hi ruck In. V A,""""''lit later Shi!-- The emply.t";i , K0, m,"'! sank so uul.-klv th-it l, ,, ""and "'.; "? to low;',- ti el - s !,iiT',w, '''' |