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Show offSSa Three American Fishing Schooners and One New Lumber Vessel. A CANADIAN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 5 The toll of the German submarine sub-marine raid in Canadian waters during the past four days had reached reach-ed a total of fivo ships tonight. Four of these wero small fishing schooners schoon-ers threo of them American and -tho other the new lumber schooner Dornfontein. The last of the five was reported today when the crew of tho Nova Scotia fisherman Nelson A., of Yarmouth, camo ashore in their dories and said their vessel had been sunk by a bomb Sunday noon fivo miles from Lockport, N. S. When the crew of tho Nelson A., last saw the raider, she was speed ing due south in pursuit of a largo steamer. Another report of the chasing steamer was brought to a Canadian port today by tho auxiliary fishing vessel McLaughlin. The McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin was chased by the submer-, sible but managed to keep out of the range of her guns until the raider veered off after tlo steamship in tho distance. No lives havo been reported Iosl The crews of the American fishing schooners Muriel and Annio M. Perry, Per-ry, both of Boston, and the Rob Roy of Gloucester, which wpro attackca Saturday reached Canadian ports In their dories yesterday. Tho first Canadian victim of tho raider the lumber schooner Dornfontein, which was looted and burned Friday at tho mouth of the Bay of Fundy, was towed into port today, still burning. nn |