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Show IMORED CRUISER SM U-BOAT SAN DIEGO SENT DOWN OFF FIRE ISLAND WHEN SUBS RESUME OPERATIONS. Of a Total of 1189 Officers and Men, All Escaped Without Injury When Vessel Is Attacked By German Sea Raider. ' New York. German submarines cp ;pear to have renewed operations off the American coast. The United States armored cruiser San Diego was Bunk not far from the entrance of New .York harbor on July 19. Circum-'stantlal Circum-'stantlal reports reaching here indicate that she was torpedoed. A total of 11S9 officers and men are known to have been saved from the 'armored cruiser San Diego, which was sunk off Fire Island, N. Y. There were no casualties and none was injured, according ac-cording to latest advices to the navy department. The return of raiders was not unexpected. unex-pected. The San Diego was the first major war ship to be lost since the country entered the war. None but commercial coastwise ships fell prey to the submarines on their first raid 'and in the war zone none but destroyers, destroy-ers, transports and small patrol boats have been successfully attacked. Despite reports of attacks on other ships and that warnings had been sent to coastwise shipping to keep close to the coast, naval officials steadfastly maintain they had no information on which to believe that the submarines jhad come again. The sinking aroused he war spirit in the capital more than the news of the great drive by Americans Ameri-cans in France, which as a proposition proposi-tion of military importance is of vastly toore concern than the loss of a comparatively com-paratively unimportant ship. |