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Show I NAVY BUREAU I AWAITING NEWS U. S. Destroyer and U-Boat in Fight Off the Atlantic Coast. NAVY SEEKING BASE Floating Supply Ship May Be Aiding German Submarines Strict Watch KepV !i( WASHINGTON. June 6. The navy department still awaited today a detailed de-tailed report of the encounter betwron II an American destroyer and 6ne of the 1 German submarines off the Atlantic coast. .Tbe destroyer was still at sea, as far as known, and the commander of the naval district to which the ves- j sel is attached has transmitted no ad- j ditional information. The fact that the enemy -craft are I able to "listen in" on radio conversa tions hampers communication of the details of the location either of the pursuing craft or of the raiders and commanders of naval vessels and of the naval district are using the utmost caution in the messages they transmit The fact that the papers of all vessels i sunk by the raiders have been taken, ! shows that the boats arc seeking In- j formation in every possible quarter. IHj, Navy Seeking Base, !j Aside from the effort to locate and ' j destroy the raiders themselves, the 1 1 navy is using every means to deter- ' mine whether the submarines have a floating base of supplies. The progress j of the raiders south from the war trade and transport routes might mean that they are moving to a previously pre-viously fixed rendezvous with a supply ship. A suggestion has been made that a I steamship out of some Mexican port flying an American flag may be serv-' serv-' ing as a base but the navy has no defi nite information on this. Every vessel Ih coastal or nearby waters is being overhauled and investigated by antisubmarine anti-submarine patrols. Floating Base Suspected. Speculation as to the use of a floating float-ing base brought up again the peculiar circumstances surrounding the sinking sink-ing of at least two vessels. In each case seamen said that while one submarine sub-marine held them up and forced them to take .to their boats, a second lay some distance off with only its periscope peri-scope showing. It may be that the second was such a vessel as the commercial submarine Deutschland, loaded with extra fuel and stores. oo |