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Show EASTPORT, Me., Aug. 3 Tho crew of nine from a lumber-laden four-masted four-masted schooner was landed at Grand Manan, N. B. today. Tho men reported re-ported that their vessel was sunk by a submarine last night while between Brier Island and Grand Manan. Tho crew escaped in one of the boats. The name of the schooner and details of the sinking were withheld. Grand Manan island is eight miles east of the eastern extremity of Maine and Brier Island, N. S. Is 35 miles southeast of Grand Manan, on the eastern eas-tern side of the Bay of Fundy. The schooner, which left St. John yesterday for South Africa, was stopped stop-ped by two shots across the bow. The nine men comprising the crew took to their yawl and arrived safely on Grand Manan three hours later. Their vessel was set on fire by the Germans. It was still burning during the forenoon and could be plainly seen from land. It was reported that firing was heard to the southward of Grand Manan Man-an this morning. Th'e submarine had been lurking at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy through which shipping from St. John, N. B., arrives in the open sea. WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 After removing re-moving a quantity of provisions from an American lumber-laden schooner near tho Maine coast last night the crew of a German submarine sot fire to the vessel, the navy department was Informed today by the commandant command-ant of the first naval district. The vessel sunk was the British schooner Dornfontein. The department Issued this statement: state-ment: "The navy department is informed that nine men in a dory landed at Gannet Rock light at 6:30 a, m. today and reported that a schooner was torpedoed tor-pedoed at 11:35 o'clock yesterday morning 35 miles west-southwest of Brier island near the coast of Nova Scotia. "The submarine, crew took off provisions pro-visions from the schooner and then set it aflro, they reported. The submarine, sub-marine, they said, appeared to be about 200 feet long and carried two guns." Naval officials believe this may be tho same submarine which began operations op-erations last month in the trans-Atlantic ship lane near Long Island. Thus far this second raid of German submarines on this side of the Atlantic Atlan-tic has been without material results. Only a few ships, most of tiem unlm-Dortant, unlm-Dortant, havo been destroyed. J |