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Show BASE ON THIS I SIDEJOUBTED Captain of Texel Believes Assailant As-sailant Was a New Submarine Subma-rine Cruiser. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. June 41 Captain Kenneth B Lowry of the Texel is convinced that his ship was sunk by one of the new German submarine sub-marine cruisers and that it crossed the Atlantic and did not come from a base on this side of the Atlantic Information dropped during a conversation con-versation with the German commander command-er to whom Captain Lowry surrendered surrender-ed leads him to that belief. A piece of shell picked up in the engine room indicated, in-dicated, the engineer said, that tho submarine carried at least six inch guns. Twelve of the Texel crew were interviewed. in-terviewed. Two said tho submarine was 350 feet long and ten placed Its length at least 300 feet. It carried guns foro and aft. The Germans acted with all the polite po-lite ruthlessness of a western bandit, according to the young skipper, who As but 28 years old. "At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon I was lying In a hammock. Suddenly we heard a shot and a shell whizzed across our bows. I ran to our bridge and a second shot tore away the hammock. ham-mock. Then the submarine rose and fired two more shots. One of these tore away a part of the bridge and one went through the engine disabling the machinery. After the fourth shot the submarine ran up the German flag and an officer appeared in the conning tower and ordered us to 'heave to.' "We 'hove to' all right, and a boat put off from the submarine and came over to us. Up over the side sprang a young German officer. He was little more than a boy. nn |