Show SUBS DESTROY 2 SHIPS IN GULF Neither Attack Brings Bring's L Loss ss of Any Lives J 1 J i r L i ij-uj ti S t f v J 4 NEW ORLEANS May tray 9 UP UP Axis Axis submarines striking in t the e eGulf Gulf of Mexico for the first time time- have sunk a sized medium-sized merchantman merchantman merchantman mer mer- and a small freighter the Eighth naval district announced announced announced an an- Saturday There was no loss of life but two men on the merchant ship were injured by shrapnel and two men on the small vessel were cut by flying glass The submarine attacks occurred May 6 The merchant ship which carried car r ned ried a crew of 41 and six passengers passengers passengers gers was torpedoed and shelled The freighter with a crew of 46 was was set set afire by rounds from the U-boat U deck gun and sank The navy declined to say whether er there was only one submarine which attacked th the two ships within within within with with- in approximately seven hours and anda a comparatively short distance apart The six passengers on the merchantman merchantman merchantman mer mer- picked up at a Central Central Central Cen Cen- American port were survivors of a previous torpedoing A coast guard cut cutter er picked up the crew and passengers about four hours later Chief Engineer F. F H. H Brewster of New Orleans and Steward N. N C. C Hart of San Francisco had shrapnel wounds Both are in the marine hospital at New Orleans |