Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-08-15 | Page 1 | Raider Shells Vessel

i Schooner Dorothy Bar-! Bar-! rett Sunk Off Cape ; May. CHASERS GO OUT Both Seaplanes and Fast Boats Drop Depth Bombs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The American Am-erican schooner Dorothy Barrett was sunk by shell fire from a German submarine sub-marine yesterday near Cape May, N. "J. r Seaplanes and submarine chasers sent to the spot dropped depth bombs on the spot where the submarine was believed to have submerged. A report to the navy today says when tho submersible appeared and opened fire on thc schooner, thc crew took to the small boats and havo been landed at Cape May. The schooner was set on fire by the shells. When tho planes and two submarine chasers were sighted the submarine submerged. submerg-ed. One of the planes flying low dropped drop-ped a depth charge where bubbles, presumably from the wake of the submarine, sub-marine, were observed. The chasers then closed In and let go several bombs. Thero was no evidence of wreckage but the submarine did not reappear. Heavy Firing Off North Carolina. PORTSMOUTH, N. C, Aug. 15. Heavy firing was heard today off the North Carolina coast in the vicinity where a German submarine has been operating.