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Show uu ELATION IS FELT IN WASHINGTON Safe Arrival of Troop Ship Due to Careful Convoy of Warships. WASHINGTON, July 4. An air of elation today prevaded administration circles over the safe arrival of the first American overseas expedition after aft-er a voyage in which submarine attacks at-tacks wore twice repelled with the loss of at least one of the undersea raiders. The forces landed intact at a French port without the loss of a man, ship or animal. The first encounter on tho night of June 22, was a complete victory for the" convoying destroyers, whose accurate ac-curate gunfire directed on the enemy I craft as rovoaled by the roving rays of the searchlights, spcedllv routed the attacking forces. American gunnery told effectively in the secoud skirmish a few days lat- IH ' er. A protecting screen of destrovcrs thrown around the transports held jH the raiders at a safe distance while the presence of oil and wreckage on I the surface of the sea after the bat- (tie indicated the destruction of one and IH j probably' more of the undersea ves- 1 sels. Both attacks were made far out IH on the Atlantic beyond the ordinary IH range of submarine activities. This is IH taken to indicate that-the German ad-miralty ad-miralty had been furnished with in-formation in-formation concerning tho precise route i to be taken by the American contin- IH I gent. Every effort Is being -made to 1 run down the spies who are believed 1 to have furnished this information to HH j the ene'my. |