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Show I Troop Ship in Transport Carrying 7,-000 7,-000 American Soldiers Sinks Three U-Boats. AN ATLANTIC PORT, July 4. Detraction De-traction In European waters of five German submarines by British transports trans-ports and by American and British destroyers de-stroyers convoying them, was described describ-ed by passengers who arrived hero today to-day on an English liner. The transports, trans-ports, one pf which was carrying 7,000 American soldiers to Europe, accounted account-ed for three of the U-boats and the destroyers sank the other two, ac-I ac-I cording to the voyagers. Officers of 1 the liner confirmed their stories. The passengers witnessed the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the 5430-ton British freighter freight-er Orissa, which was part of their own convoy when the fleet was approxi-I approxi-I matcly a day out, steaming west from the British Isles. The Orissa, bound ' in ballast for the United States, was sent to tho bottom by an unseen sub-j sub-j marine. A moment later, however, an ; American destroyer in the proteciing tj fleet detected the undersea boat be-l(l be-l(l low tho surfaco and dropped a depth V; bomb, making a direct hit. The same, L evening a U-boat was sighted by the Pi passenger vessel whose gunners sank J it by shell fire. The other three submarines were f destroyed on the eastward trip of an-f an-f other convoy. They said a British J? transport, with 7,000 American troops xJ aboard, rammed a submersible which ', was revealed with two others in the ;'j sudden lifting of a heavy fog. Almost ! simultaneously with tho disappear-'V disappear-'V anco of the first submarine beneath f the transport's bow, the ship's gun-i gun-i ' nors accounted for another while a I British destroyer disposed of thojthird. (3 oo |