Show I I POISONED GAS USED IN BOAT U-BOAT ATTACK HUNS INAUGURATE INGENIOUS FORM OF FRIGHTFULNESS OFF MIDDLE MIDD- ATLANTIC COAST Six Men in Coast Guard Station Statin and Lighthouse Overcome By Gas Discharged Discharged Discharged Dis Dis- charged on Water By German Submarine Washington Gas Gas' from oil discharged dis- dis lIs charged on the water the Yater by the German submarine submarIno operating off of the Middle Atlantic coast overcame six men inthe In Inthe In Inthe the coast guard station and lighthouse on oil Smiths Smith's Island N. N N. N C. C the navy Y dt department de 1 was advised ad Monday b by the commandant of the sixth naval d the the- 1 If It the gas attack were deliberate as most officials believed it constitutes a new and Ingenious form of ot frightfulness frightfulness frightfulness fright and bo so far as has been reported reported re 10 re- re ported was the first filSt direct ct effort pf of the German Gelman raiders to harm 1 persons I or property on American shores The gas was said by the time commandant command command- ant of the time coastguard station to have much the same effect as itS the mustard gas used by the time G Germans on the western western west west- ern era front The Time men were ere out for more than half halt an hour but apparently suffered no serious after effects The Time dispatch relating the gas attack att attack at at- 1 t tack ck was one of a series concerning i l German submarine warfare off the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast received during the dl las day lasby b by the navy pavy department One told olan of ol an attack on a submarine miles east of the Virginia coast by an AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lena destro destroyer er which discharged seventeen soy sev enteen depth charges where the miller raider raid mill er was seen to submerge The result of the attack was not determined but after oil had appeared on the surface of the water two bombs were dropped on the spot and the submarine was submarine ewas was n not nat t seen again |