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Show U. S. GUNNERS MEET DEFEAT. Put Up Game Fight Against Submarine, Sub-marine, But Come Out Second Best. Washington. American naval gunners gun-ners have met their first defeat in open fight with a German submarine.-Offlcial submarine.-Offlcial dispatches on June 15 announced an-nounced the destruction of the tank steamer Morenl, abandoned ablaze June 12 by the crew and armed guard after a desperate running fight in the war zone which cost the lives of four of her crew. Half an hour after the tanker had been sent to the bottom her forty-three forty-three survivors, including all of the members of the armed guard, were picked up with their lifeboats by a passing steamer. The German commander com-mander had set them adrift after congratulating con-gratulating the American skipper upon his game fight and having the wounded men treated by the submarine's sub-marine's surgeon. The submarine began the action at a range of 8000 yards, four nautical miles, when she hardly was visible to the steamer without glasses. Presenting Present-ing virtually no target herself, she sent. 200 shells at the big tanker, making mak-ing many hits, while the American gunners wasted 150 shots without j harming the speck from which the deadly hall came. j |