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Show TRAWLER WILL SOONBECAUGHT Navy Sends Out Last Fleet to Capture or Destroy Converted Con-verted Raider. A CANADIAN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 21 The fishing schponer Lucille Schnare of Lunenborg was sunk late today by the trawler Triumph, which a German submarine crew has converted con-verted into a raider. Both bombs and gunfire were used. The crow arrived at Canso tonight. Many Officiels Review Case WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 Navy department de-partment officials tonight confidently awaited a wireless dispatch telling of the capture or destruction of the trawler traw-ler Triumph which was seized by a German submarine yesterday and armed or a raiding expedition against the defenseless fleet of fishing smack operating on tho Grand Banks. Tho department, through Admiral Benson, acting secretary, requested newspapers to make no mention of the type of craft being employed in the hunt. It was said that these are numerous and swift enough to make the eventual apprehension of the converted con-verted fishing vessel absolutely certain cer-tain unless .the enemy crew destroys the ship or attempts to engage one of the pursuers in unequal combat. Offcials here expressed the belief tonight that the German commander realized the utter hopelessness of his continuing operations for more than twenty-four tours. This would result, the German officers might hope, in a large force being held along the Grand Banks, lessening the strength of the coast guard at other points. The answer made to this possibility is that adequate forces are now in service ser-vice at every vital point to protect all ships. The only dispatch received by the department today concerning the newest new-est maneuver of the submarine flotilla flo-tilla was a brief message from the commander of the first naval district at Boston. It confirmed the landing of the captain and crew of tlrb Triumph Tri-umph and reiterated the story told by tliese sailors. Six hours earlier this information was given to tho navy department de-partment through press dispatches and was flashed by naval wireless to the patrol forces. "The department has taken steps to protect fishing on the Grand Banks and to counteract tho effects of this raid, Admiral Benson said. He expressed ex-pressed the opinion that it would be impossible for the Germans in tho limited lim-ited timo at their disposal to equip the Triumph properly as a raider. Such a task, he pointed out, would ta'-o the New York navy yard nearly a week. With the crew of seventeen men, armed with revolvers and a ma-chlno ma-chlno gun or two, the Triumph would be able to capturo and then destroy a number of small craft. Tho maximum maxi-mum military advantage the Germans can hope to obtain, It was held, was tho depiction of tho supply of canned fish for tho army. Admiral Benson refused to place much credence in tho statement of the submarine commander to the captain cap-tain of tho Triumph that six U-boats now are operating in American waters. wa-ters. Naval officials are convinced only three have been actively engaged. The acting sccreLiry warned against the public placing too much hope in stories of German submersibles being destroyed. In this connection he divulged di-vulged the fact that the claim of a British merchantman having sunk a submarino after a long range gun duel ! has been definitely controverted. It was on this same submarine and sev-. sev-. eral days later that Captain Evans of the steamer Penistone was detained after his ship had been captured and . sunk. |