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Show THREE MORE SHIPS ADDED 10 LIST U-Boats Still Operating Near Atlantic Coast and Moving Mov-ing Southward. NEW YORK. June 5 Three more vessels a Norwegian steamship and two schooners were added to the list of ships known to have been sunk by the German submarines which arc raiding in American waters. The total to-tal now stands at fourteen five steamers and nine schooners. The fact which stood out most prominently in the day's developments is that the U-boats are still operating near the coast and have not returned to their bases, assuming that the two the only ones on this side of the Atlantic. At-lantic. This was demonstrated when the Norwegian steamer Eldsvold was sunk off the Virginia capes late yesterday. The location of the attack shows also that the submarines are moving steadily stead-ily soulhward, if they are the same ones which attacked shipping almost al-most at the gateway to New York harbor. har-bor. The navy department leported yesterday an encounter between a destroyer de-stroyer and a submarine off tho coast of Maryland. None of the vessels reported sunk thus far was sent to the bottom b a torpedo. It is considered certain that the undersea craft carry torpedoes and that they are conserving them In the hope thai they may get an opportunn sooner or later to attack a transport loaded with American troops The unarmed un-armed merchant ships which have been attacked thus far have been sent to the bottom by the use of bombs and shell fire. Possibility that vessels still unreported unre-ported may have been sunk was seen in a statement of the master of the schooner Samuel C. Mengel, who arrived ar-rived here today with his rescued crew. He declared he was told by the commander of the submarine which destroyed his ship that the U-boat had sunk three steamers, one a passenger liner and three schooners, last Saturday. Satur-day. No vessels have been reported sunk that day. So far as known the onl loss of life was aboard the New York and Porto Rico liner Carolina and that was definitely def-initely established tonight at only sixteen six-teen by revised figures compiled by the company showing that there were aboard the vessel only 218 passengers and 111 in the crew, making a total of 329, instead of 350 as originally reported. report-ed. All those who perished evidently were lost from the lifeboat which arrived ar-rived yesterday at Lewes. Del. Ten of them were passengers and six were members of the crew. |