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Show O-ElflBFIE BROUGHT OVER SEA FORLORN HOPE OF GERMANY TO DRAW HOME SOME OF AMERICAN NAVAL FORCES. Submarines Fail to Sink Transports on Account of Convoy and Turn Against the Defenceless Coastwise Ships. Washington. Germany at last has brought her submarine warfare to the shores of the United States, apparently appar-ently in a forlorn hope oC striking telling blows on this side of the Atlantic At-lantic and of drawing home some of the American naval forces from the war zones, where the U-boat menace is being slowly but surely strangled to death. In the attacks upon coasting vessel; almost in sight of the New Jersey shore reported Monday, naval officials see a frantic admission from Berlin that the submarine has failed. American armed power is rolling overseas in ever-increasing force, despite the utmost exertions exer-tions of the undersea pirates off the coasts of Europe. Lurk for Days for Prey. Now the raiders have crossed the sea and lurked for days near America's greatest ports. They no doubt were sent to sink transports, but here again they failed. Blocked off the troop ships by convoy craft, they have turned in fury against defenseless coasters. In all the record of destruction they have written, the raiding party has struck at no vessels bound overseas and therefore armed for a fight. Only ships that could not hit back have been attacked. The only one of half a score of vessels probably sent to the bottom that had any real military value in ship or cargo was an oil tanker. Some Victims Aboard U-Boat. The crews of some of the craft destroyed de-stroyed have been brought into port, with a story of eleven days' imprisonment imprison-ment aboard an enemy submarine. During that period, scores of troop and supply ships have passed in and out, on the business of crushing the German army in France. The U-boat found no weak link in the chain of armed craft that guarded them. Secretary Daniels went to the Capitol Capi-tol Monday to tell members of the house naval committee that the raid was designed to frighten the American people into demanding the return of war vessels from the other side. He gave assurance that congress need have no apprehension as to protection of the American coast and that there will be no recall of forces from the war zone. |