Show POISONED GAS USED IN BOAT U-BOAT ATTACK i HUNS INAUGURATE INGENIOUS FORM OF FRIGHTFULNESS OFF OFIr MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST Six Men in Coast Guard Station and Lighthouse Overcome By Gas Discharged Discharged Discharged Dis Dis- charged on Water By German i Submarine Gas Washington Gas from lom oil discharged dis dis- discharged charged on ou the water by the German submarine operating of oft off the Middle Atlantic coast overcame six men inthe inthe in lu luthe the coast guard station and lighthouse on n Smiths Smith's Island N N. C. C Cf the nav navy department department department de de- de- de was advised Monday l by the commandant of the sixth naval dis dis- If the gas gns attack were deliberate as most officials believed It constitutes new and Ingenious form of ot a frightfulness frightfulness fright and 50 fO far as has been reported reported reported re re- re- re ported was the first direct ct effort of the German raiders to harm persons or ar r property on American shores The gas was said by the commandant command command- ant of the coastguard station to have much the same effect as the mustard gas as used by the Germans on the western west west- era ern rn front The men were laid out for more than half an all hour but apparently apparently suffered no serious after effects The dispatch relating the gas attack attack attack at at- tack was one of a series concerning German submarine warfare off ocr the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic lanU coast received during the da day by the navy department One told of an nn attar attack k on on a d submarine miles east of the Virginia coast b by an American American Amer Amer- ican destroyer which discharged seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen depth charges where the raider raider raid raid- raider er was seen to submerge The result of f the attack was not determined but n after oil oil had appeared on the surface of f the the water vo two bombs were dropped on n the spot and the submarine was not seen again |