Show ii SUBMARINES NES ATTACK UI Si TROOP SHIPS TWO U-BOATS U SES y EAVOR TO STOP TRANS IN E SOLDIERS OF 0 J PORT 1 of Troops of Movement Informed formed 1 Fleet i Jf mini Send Out Sub-sea Sub ns Germa Se Night Attack and Later Latera I Make MaJ an and d t a Day Eng Engagement gement The news was given Riven on JuI July 3 that American dc- dc at t h here re with 1 transports 11 convoyIng ers fought off two sube sub- sub l France for ops of the first news attacks The ne e L out by the committee was cn Information WWI with formal an- an cement or of the safe arrival of the Il n of th the transports with their their con con- 1 i s t This announcement was Issued r s navy Y d department t ment at aDO t 5 r o'clock c 1 oc 1 for this Afternoon afternoon July 3 received word 5 th f die he safe arrival at a n French port of Xe contingent of or f General Per- Per PerL the last e expeditionary force At the L released an- an was the fL information j dirie e t th e also was made that the were twice attacked ed by sub sub- tr on oa the way war across it iF-it tAt At least one submarine was sunk I Both of th the e attacks were I in force fOlce had r fi wing that the Germans of the coming of the trans trans- sI s- s I I I wits orts and planned to get them ship was hit n nOt t t an American l o j o e was lost and while the navy dis- dis report the sinking of only one i Submarine there is is' is reason to believe belleve ed In the first That others were destro destroyed attack Secretary Daniels made this state- state im Bent fit MIt It Is with the joy of a great relief that hat I announce to the people of the United States the sa sore sare arrival arrI in France o of every fighting man and nud n ul every ev ev- ery rr ship I I SOW Now that the last vessel luis lias r reached port it is safe to disclose the singerS ers that were encountered enco an and aud to TeU the complete story of peril and co courage The transports bearing our troops f were rere twice attacked by German sub sub- arine on n fl the time way across On both the U-boats U were beaten off 11 r o irith th every appearance of loss One certainly was sunk and there Is reason renson t tb that the accurate fire of out out- gunners sent others to the bottom For r purposes of convenience the expedition wa was divided into con contin- contin tin tin- rents gents each ch contingent Including troop ships and nd a naval escort designed to keep off such German raiders as might b be meL An ocean rendezvous had bad also been arranged with the American destroyers destroy destroy- f ers n now w operating in the time European waters wa wn- ers in order that the passage c of the danger zone might be attended b by ev ev- err iry possible protection at 10 1030 30 The first attack took place ei the night of June 22 What gives t peculiar and disturbing significance Js Is s that our ships were set upon at nt a point flint well this side of the rendezvous and md In that part of the Atlantic pro pre free from submarines The attack was made mad at night made it Impossible to give any aJl act account of th the U-boats U gathered for or what t they deemed a u slaughter The high seas convoy circling with heir their searchlights answered with h heavy eavy Yr gun fire and its accuracy stands rove by the fact that the torpedo discharge became increasingly scattered scatter scatter- ed ed fl and Inaccurate It It Is not known o many any torpedoes were launched ut live five were counted as they sp sped ll by by J bow and ste sternA stern Jl A A second attack was launched a afew afew few days later against another contin contin- gent gent The point of assault was be beyond ond the rendezvous and our destro destroyers ers Pere were Vera sailing as a screen creen between the transports and all harm The results lot ef t the were In favor of Amen Ameri- cab an h gunnery Not alone did the destroyers hold the Je boats U-boats at a safe distance but also resulted In the sink sink- ng g ot of one one submarine at least Gre- Gre nades were used in firing filing a depth- depth explosive timed to go ot oft off at a CertaIn distance u under undera der water sater a tel In In one 1 Instance oil and wreckage covered the time theof surface of the sea after a shot from a destroyer at a periscope and the remake re- re Porte mak make claim of sinking |