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Show HOOKER IS Mil OF TElli Ulf Ship Set Afire by Hi Crew Gets to Port Safely. : EASTPORT, Me., Au?. l.-m f. successful foray of a German subrr.--in Canadian waters was reported heyday. hey-day. Captain Charles E. Dagwell o' British lumber schooner Dornforite;c his crew of eight men landed in .v small boat on Grand Manan island ir '. Bay of Fundy at 6:30 a. m. todav reported that their vessel had tteri ' up, looted and Bet on fire by a twenty-five miles southwest of island at 11:35 o'clock yesterday rrr" The submarine, apparently, was ; Ing for bigger game. .She was in a" tion commanding shipping from tr-' nadian ports of Yarmouth, X. s., a--John. N. B., and was oniy a comri ly short distance outside American torial waters. An American patrol boat took O Dagwell and his men from Grand y 1 to St. John, X. B. , According to Captain Dagm;;, commander of the L"-boat told him : I been on this coast six months and; be here until October. The sui.rr.--looked to Captain Dagwell to U feet in length. She carried two had a crew of seventy-five men." The Dornfontein was stocked witr . visions for a voyage to South Alports Al-ports and the Germans cheered as . load after boatload of poods was , ferred to the raider. The Britisb v. were allowed to take with them o.v. clothes they stood in. The submarine, which came to surface a short distance frrr: schooner, fired a warning shot ar.d - a small boat aboard. Fires were su-on su-on various parts of the vessel and twenty-four hours after the Dorr.fo:.! was attacked, a smudge of smoke her hulk was visible from Grand v.-' v.-' island. Indicating that she was . afloat. The Dornfontein was on her r.v voyage. She was of 1000 tons dead and was launched six weeks ago a; John, X. B. There were certain points of sim.-in sim.-in the actions of the submarine : mander which led naval officers tr Ueve that the U-boat was the same sank four coal barges and set a t i. off Cape Cod a week ago last Sundiy sent a Gloucester fishing schooner bottom off the southeastern coir. Maine on the Monday following. WASHINGTON", Aug. 3. After ing a quantity of provisions f re-American re-American lumber-laden: schooner ntr Maine coast last ni?'nt. the cres -German submarine set fire to the x: the navy departm.ent was informei : by the commandant of the first : district. The name of the schooner not given. The department issuei this 5atr "The navy department is inferrr-rc nine men in a dory landed at Gi P.ock light at 6 CO a. m. toaay ar.l ported that a schooner was torped:-11:35 torped:-11:35 o'clock yesterday morr.ir.e ;': five miles west-southwest of Briar ii near the coast of Nova Scotia. ' The submarine crew took off visions from the schooner a-.d then : afire, they reported. The suhmar.ne, said, appeared to be aNut 200 feet and carried two guns." Naval officers he'ieve this may bi same submarine which be-jan crra last month in the trans -Atlantic lane near Long Island. Thus far, this second raid of Oe: submarines on this side of the A;', has been without material res;:lts-a res;:lts-a few ships, most of them unimpc: have been destroyed. ST. JOHN. N. B.. Aug. 3. Fees; the presence of a German su binary the Eav of Fundy. military auth: today ordered all lights out in this tonight. |