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Show SUBMARINES SINK ELEVENS SHIPS TWO PASSENGER STEAMERS, ONE STEAM TANKER AND SIX SCHOONERS SUNK. German U-Boats Begin Attack off Jersey Coast which Brings the War Closer to the People of America. New York. The unrestricted submarine sub-marine warfare of the Hun has been brought overseas, and the U-boats have taken their first toll of American shipping on this side of the Atlantic. Reports received on June ;! indicate that two coastwise passenger steamers, steam-ers, one steam tanker and six schooners schoon-ers have been sent to the bottom by the German sea-raiders. No loss of life lias been reported, however, a the raiders apparently are not operating oper-ating on the "spurlos versenkt" basis. .The vessels known or believed to have been sunk are: Carolina, plying between Porto Rico and New York. Carried 220 passengers and 120 in crew. City of Columbus, plying between be-tween Savannah and New York. 'Win-neconnie, 'Win-neconnie, a steamship of ISti!) tons, bound from Newport News to Providence, Provi-dence, with cargo of oil. Herbert 1.. Pratt, oil tanker, sunk off Cape Ileu-lopcn. Ileu-lopcn. The following schooners are known to have been sunk : Edward H. Cole, in ballast, crew of eleven. Haltie I.Minn. bound from Rockland to Charleston, in ballast, Isabella B. ' Wiley, in ballast, crew of eight. Jacob M. Haskell, bound from Boston to Norfolk, crew of eleven. Schooner Kdna, bound to Santiago, Cuba, with oil. Hauppauge. Texel. The crews of the Jacob M. Haskell, the Isabell B. Wiley and the Hauppauge Haup-pauge are still missing, as are ail on board the steamers Caroline and City i of Columbus. Naval officers at Norfolk, Va., say their reports indicated five German submarines had been operating along the Atlantic coast, and that two bad been sighted off the Virginia capes. Rear Admiral Fletcher, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, said two U-boats had been sighted off the Virginia Vir-ginia capes, and Rear Admiral McLean, Mc-Lean, commandant of the fifth naval district, said, in addition to these, two others were reported off the coast of New Jersey and one off the coast of North Carolina. Neither 'officer had been advised of any engagement between be-tween American warships and the U-boats. Reports brought ashore by the sur- ' rivers indicated that the Winneconnie and nearly all the schooners were sunk by the same U-boat, which had been lurking in the path of shipping off the New Jersey coast and the Delaware capes since late last month. The stories told by the skippers of the schooners indicated that the commander of the submersibles was unusually humane for a German submarine officer. In no instance, so far as known, was a life-boat shelled and in all cases reported- the crews were given opportunity oppor-tunity to escape or were taken aboard the submarine, where some of them were kept prisoners for eight days before they were turned adrift to be picked up by a passing vessel. Scores of United States warships were ranging the waters off the north Atlantic coast in starch of the German Ger-man submarines which made their long-expected attack on "American shipping in home waters late Monday afternoon. While the details of naval operations were withheld, it is known that destroyers, de-stroyers, fleets of submarine chasers and other vessels are flashing their searchlights tiTnigtit over the waters along the coast and far out at sea from Maine to Florida. Hydroairplanes and airplanes arose like flocks of huge birds from every naval station along the Atlantic coast when the warning was flashed to them and soon were scouting over the waters where it is believed submarines would be most likely to be lurking. Foreign For-eign aviators and American students, as well as American flyers, eagerly volunteered for service. Hovering for two days over the sea whert the American tanker William Rockefeller had been sunk by a German Ger-man submarine, it flotilla of destroyers and two seaplanes finally succeeded in capturing the U-boat, according to naval officers, survivors of the disaster, dis-aster, who lauded Monday at an Atlantic At-lantic port. The sea for miles about the spot where the fatal blow struck the tanker was closely wach'd by destroyers and their accompanying seaplanes. At last the submarine, which had stayed below the surface so long that its air tanks had become exhausted, rose to the surface and was netted. |