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Show I POISONED GAS USED Ifl U-BOAT ATTACK HUNS INAUGURATE INGENIOUS FORM OF FRIGHTFULNESS OFF MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST. Six Men in Coast Guard Station and Lighthouse Overcome By Gas Discharged Dis-charged on Water By German Submarine. j Washington. Gas from oil discharged dis-charged on the water by the German submarine operating off the Middle Atlantic coast overcame six men in the coast guard station ami lighthouse i on Smith's Island, X. C, the navy de- j partment was adv ised Monday by the ; commandant of the sixth naval d..-.- i trict. j If the gas attack were deliberate, as i most oflicials believed, it constitutes ! a new and ingenious form of "fright-fulness," "fright-fulness," and so far as has been reported, re-ported, was the first direct effort of the German raiders to harm persons or property on American shores. The gas was said by the commandant command-ant of the coastguard station to have much the same effect as the mustard gas used by the Germans on the western west-ern front. The men were laid out for more than half an hour, but apparently appar-ently suffered no serious after effects. The dispatch relating the gas attack at-tack was one of a series concerning German submarine warfare off the Atlantic At-lantic coast received during the day by the navy department. One told of an attack on a submarine 100 miles east of the Virginia coast by an American Amer-ican destroyer, which, discharged seventeen sev-enteen depth charges where the raider raid-er was seen to submerge. The result of the attack was not determined, but after oil had appeared on the surface of the water, two bombs were dropped on the spot and the submarine was not seen again. |