| Show U U. B S. S EAGER FOR CAMP AIGN f i 1 SUBMARINE MAY M A Y HAVE FIRED SHOT j UNDER UNDERWATER WATER Boat U Could Have Been I i 3 t Lying at Bottom WaitT Waiting Waiting Waitt Wait- Wait T ing for Transports teary Jar affairs committee My sympathy goes goes out to the parents of ot the splendid American bo boys s 's who were on their way o France to fight for the tho liberty of tho the world We We must take this as a part of ot the f frim irn im business of ot war declared Sena- Sena u r x the P Penrose of the senate nav naval l affairs It should impress upon us m le necessity e for tor speeding up p our our alrIe air air- r- r lh fe Ie program and other means of ot tin U TJ That they have truck this blow is no reason to lose 11 Hope ope It should only strengthen us j But there was a sharp rebound from the llie shock when naval officers declared that that revenge is certain In the past three m months British and American patrols they said have sunk U-boats U fester faster than they they have been built New Antisubmarine work by the Americans pey ey they added is proving hopefully suc- suc By Associated t Press WASHINGTON Feb 7 lt It It was wast t possible here that survivors of oft t the he e. e British h cr crew w of the Tu Tuscania s c ania not r reported reported ported in war department advices r light account for the difference in f gurus gures s as to the number of missing t There was was some speculation among Cal l. l officers on the possibility that e Tuscania might have struck a aThe aThe The indicated location of ot the cl s ter Is In a region not previously by submarines But e text of ot the official anno nce- nce nis say say the ship was torf torp tor- tor f p and until detailed accounts of ot oft oti t i te e Incident are available for study there is nothing to Justify going beyond be beYond beyond be- be yond the formal announcement jit It is doubtful that the Tuscania was fas in a route usually followed by American transports As a British vessel essel under British convoy the se securIty security security se- se of the American troops beyond question was to British handling h So far as now known no non n val craft shared in the task Probably numerous other transports or or army supply vessels were were in the c convoy The Tuscania must have remained afloat for a considerable time Rumors Ru Ru- Rumor mors mors mor were current today which could not be traced to fo any source that she Was still afloat The process of of convoying has be- be almo almost t routine through practice in II both 1 both the British and American I navies I jA jA screen of d destroyers els or other others s swift ift craft travels ahead of a con- con v fleet The destroyers are spread out over a considerable area It is known that virtually all of the German U-boats U are are equipped with J listening t ices de of considerable dis- dis f pc so so the approach of the destroyers destroy destroy- ers may ers inay have become known to t the e eq q boat TJ boat commander even before the 1 sets themselves were sighted Fear Fearo o oj oJ depth jepth bombs would drive the boat ij-boat boat T.-boat to lurk motionless at at some depth until the sound of the destroyers destroyers' destroy destroy- e ers ers' is s' s propeller had faded out showing teat at they had passed The U-boat U would come to the surface then teen to explore t rf t aval officials say that the one c Chance ance against which absolute precaution pre pre- caution 09 will not guard is that the submarine will come up in the path of the approaching transports obtain I aI aj sight that will permit her to train h her r torpedo tubes by compass and again submerge As the listening de- de ces show that a ship Is lg within r a torpedo could be fired d by the submarine while still submerged Sometimes under the laws of chance It might find its Us mark marl and this may mayve Ive ve happened with the Tuscania While the loss indicated was fully appreciated by officials here there was ryas a general air of relief about the war and navy departments that the loss of life was not larger The army I will continue to go to Europe In the face face- of the submarines the government government govern govern- I ment meanwhile bending every energy en en- ergy to find additional means I en-I of checking checking- the undersea raiders |
