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Show oo RAIDERS DRAWING CLOSE JN SHORE Navy Department Confirms Sinkings and Reviews U-Boat Activities Off Eastern Coast. WASHINGTON June a. The submarine sub-marine raiders again have disclosed their positions. An announcement from the navj department tonight said the Norwegian steamer Eidsvold was sent to the bottom at 4 o'clock yesterday yester-day afternoon forty miles off the Virginia Vir-ginia capes. The entire crew was rescued res-cued today by a navy supply ship. .Details .De-tails of the encounter are lacking. In thirty hours after the attack on the Eidsvold nothing has come to indicate indi-cate where the Germans were or what they were about. The raiders were closer inshore when they attacked the Eidsvold than on any previous occasion, except when they launched the mine picked up off the Delaware capes. The tanker Pratt apparently struck one of these mines and a number if other, unexploded, ! hae been gathered up in the same vicinity vi-cinity by patrol craft. The French tanker Radioleine un successfully attacked at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning off the Maryland coast, probably was a hundred miles north of the place where the Eidsvold was sunk eight hours later. Avoiding Armed Craft. It is increasingly evident as the reports re-ports accumulate, that the U-boats are . avoiding armed craft, and the vigilance ' of the navy patrol has kept them far away from the principal ports. Their errand in American waters is mystify -i ing and the only explanation so far found acceptable is that offered by. Secretary Daniels to members of congress con-gress an attempt to terrify the United Unit-ed States into recalling of its fighting ships from European waters for home defense Tonight's statement announcing the destruction of the Eidsvold was brief I it said: I "The Norwegian sieamship Eidsvold was sunk by an enemy submarine for-1 ty miles off the Virginia capes about 5 ! f. m. on Juno 1, according to word re- I celved from a United States naval cargo ship. The entire crew was rescued res-cued by this naval ship on the afternoon after-noon of June 5 and is procoedlnsr to an Atlantic port." Why the L'-baaL cominajider nicked,. out a neutral craft for attack is not g, apparent. The errand and cargo of w fit Eidsvold are not now known Xf(n l gian vessels have suffered heavily Wj the North sea operations of the Oct mans, however, and it Is evident Germany's own version of tbe lU,cs. v t sea warfare are those to be appllpd 0 o her u boat commanders, even out.v.do j ihe zones lixed iorjUil&,s jonerauaoa. J |