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Show MUCH DOUBT EXPRESSED ABOUT SUBMARINE RAID Dover, England, Dec. 10, via London, Lon-don, Dec. 11, 11:15 a. m. The city of Dover was thrown info excitement tc-day tc-day by the announcement that th." Germans early thJa morning attempt cd a submarine attack on the harbor works and the fleet at anchor In the hai-bor The night was very dark and a heavy rain and haze made searchlight work difficult. Fortunately, the forts were put on the alert about 4 o'clock this morning by the appearance off the harbor entrance of an unidentified steamer, which refuse,! to stop until a shot was lired across her bow. This vessel then retired She is believed to have been the tender of the submarines. sub-marines. Halt an hour later, it Is said, a single sin-gle submarine was sighted and one of the heavy guns in the harbor flreu at her. This submarine, which evidently evi-dently was the advance scout, disappeared, disap-peared, but at 6:30 the observers sigoted what they believed to be a fleet of about six .submarines several miles out in the channel. The channel forts commenced firing fir-ing In the direction of the supposed submarines and kept it up for almos1 half an hoar. At the same time a torpedo-boat destroyer flotilhi put to sea, where it remained all day. Large crowds gathered on the wil ter front in the early morning houri,. oo |
