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Show IT LAKER HELPS SIIIJST U-BOAT P. Gail Tells How Hun (ubmarinc Met Fate in , Mediterranean. line with the exciting controversy of ,o fired the last shot in the war?" another question to be solved: l0 sank the last U-boat?" fAW months ago The Tribune printed irtlcle srlvlng Eugenn Rosenkranz of Lake the credit of dropping from a fiarlne chaser the depth bomb that hri the last German submarine bc- the slgnlnK of the armistice. Voov of the paper reached another ,r C P. Gail, on the U. S. S. Parker 5rernerhaven, Germany. Gail takes Jtion to the statement that the last narine was aunk by Rosenkranz"a and gives an account of what he Ives to be the last naval engage-t engage-t between a destroyer and a Hun iat Vie last sub was sunk by an Amer-' Amer-' destrovcr on November- 9 in the rn end of the straits of Gibraltar," es Gail. "N'o ship got official credit it Four ships, the U. S. S. Luce, Israel, the Dtehl and the Parker, were ollinc' the straits when it became 1 vn that Austria had surrendered and - tho submarines in the Medltcr-an Medltcr-an would have to moke their exit ug;i the straits. 1 tp the morning of November 9 the Isli warship H. M. S. Britannia was i gooeri and sunk. We hauled over a ' i are i leokins for the submarine, but 0ji result. About 6 p. m., while on I oi a torpedo cut across the front ot ' bow. Our ship mane a charge and bed about thirty depth bombs around mot where the sub went down. After i bombs had exploded wo noticed im-se im-se amounts of black oil coming to lurfaee. but no trace of tho sub. We 1 jved orders to proceed to port at once use of condenser trouble, and had to i the scene. That night the Israel d up twenty-e;ght of the sub's crew, f were found in a collapsible boat. I said that after the pounding we had i) them they had emptied the sub a 1 in an attempt to save it. hut the ' failed, and later It was necessary to to the surface and abandon the ked boat. 6me more of the German crew were jd up by a tramp steamer passing at 1 time. 1 order to receive credit for the sink-it sink-it a. submarine, some portion of the kage and a member of the crew l be brought to port by the victorious i we brought neither. The Luce imahle to drop any charges in this gement, so the credit cannot be given er." U is quite certain that the engage-i engage-i mentioned was the last in which bmarlne was sunk, although no offi-credit offi-credit was given his ship for the I- |