Show British Take or Sink 9 0 T Tet euton Submarines NEW NE' YORK March 20 hassen Passengers l en gers arriving b by the Red Star liner Lapland from Liverpool tonight de declare do- do dare clare that nine German RII submarines mar nes have been secretly sunk unk or captured l I by the tho British within tho the past two wee weeks It Is common knowledge In Lon London on th they y said that two German submarines rines have be been n netted at tho the en entrance entrance entrance en- en trance to Dover harbor and their crews drowned though the admiralty Is suppressing news of or Its successes against the tho submarines submarine The Tho huge chains which V formed the sunken nets stripped the tho propellers and the tho rudder rudders rudders rud rud- ders der from both under water boats One passenger who had pad been In Edinboro said th the U U 22 22 was sunk Inthe Inthe in the thc mouth of or the tho First of or Forth two weeks ago and that the crew of the English torpedo boat which pushed Cd this feat teat came to and related their experiences t to newspaper newspaper news newt paper reporters The Tho newspapers however were not d to print the tho stor store Tho The port purt workmen at Liverpool Live have havo spread stories of or the tho sinking of the German submarines In Iii tho the wAters near Liverpool They declare the they have e talked with the crews of the tho boats that sank the submarines Tho The latest rumor in London regarding regarding regard regard- ing submarine submarino captures was vas that thal an an English crew had seized a a. German boat which supplied oil to the submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines and that when four German submarines camo to tho the supply ship thc the English seized their crews vs made them prisoners and then seized the su submarines Despite d denials at the Red Star Starline line lino office In London the tho Lapland's passengers confirmed a report cabled to New York ten days ago that the thc Lapland sighted a German submarine as os she was leaving IN liverpool lI and es escaped escaped es- es attack by putting to sea at all nIl possible speed |