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Show jMOUABACK IN HOME PORT i Officer Who Fired First Shot Saw Shell Strike Periscope of Submarine. The American steamship Mongolia, from which the company's first shot of tho war with Germany was fired with with such accuracy that a German sub-1 marine was sunk, arrived at an Ameri-' can port today from Europe, bringing a report by the officers of another apparent ap-parent encounter with a U-boat The second adventure was on May -1, according to Lieutenant Bruce M. Ware, the man who commanded the naval gun crew which disposed of the submarino on April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. Tho Mongolia Mon-golia was on her homeward voyage, when about midnight the wake of what was believed to be a torpedo was seen ahead in the moonlight. Tho missile, if it was one, passed under the ship's bow. No submarine was sighted, but a shot was fired from one of the Mon golia's guns in the direction from which the supposed torpedo had come, and nothing further was heard or seen to Indicate a submarine's presence. The gunners on the Mongolia were jubilant upon their arrival. They re-Iterated re-Iterated their conviction that tho shot on April 19 sank the submarine. It was fired, Lieutenant Ware said, by James A. Goodwin, gunner's mate, of Portsmouth, Va. Lieutenant Ware declared de-clared that through his glasses ho saw the shot strike the U-boat's periscopo and that the hit was followed by a cloud of white vapor, as if an internal inter-nal explosion had been caused. After that the submarine did not reappear, he said. |