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Show SCOURING THE SEA FDR HUH U-BDATS DESTROYERS SEARCHING FOR SUBMARINES THAT ATTACKED UNARMED VESSELS. French Steamer Attacked by Raiders is Saved from Destruction by an American Destroyer off the Maryland Coast. Washington. Enemy submarines still were operating off the American coast on June 4. A French tank steamer, steam-er, the Eadioleine, first trans-Atlantic craft to be attacked by the raiders, was saved from destruction at 9 :30 o'clock Tuesday morning by an American Amer-ican destroyer, sixty-five miles off the Maryland coast. The same destroyer found the coasting coast-ing schooner Edward It. Baird, Jr., sinking after having been bombed in the same vicinity, making seven schooners and four steamers known officially to have been sunk by the raiders. Announcement by the navy department depart-ment of these facts, disclosed that the raid in American waters had not ended with Monday's tale of destruction, upsetting up-setting the theory that the raiders probably were speeding homeward. Coast patrol vessels had not acted on theory. They now are closing in from all directions on the scene of the raider's last exploit, scouring the sea for further trace of enemy U-boats as they come. Secretary Daniels directed that the brief report from the destroyer be made public. The destroyer herself, with two survivors from the Baird, a 279 ton craft hailing from Wilmington, Wilming-ton, Del., was still hunting for the enemy. |