SUBMARINES OFF AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 5 June 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINES OFF AMERICA

SEVERAL STEAMERS SUNK

BY U-BOATS

SENSATIONAL NEWS

PROMPT NAVAL MEASURES Now York, .Tune 3.' Tllio S.O.S. call has been received from Iho steamer Carolina (5093 tons), a Porlo Rica liner, which was attacked by submarines. Tho passenger steamer City of Columbus (5133 tons) was sunk by a submarine. One steamer and several smaller craft were sunk on tho Jersey coast. Tho ships were attacked during the nigbt. Tho eastern ports have boon closed. No dopartures are allowed. TJie crews of several craft have been rescued and landed. Two U-boats w?ro seen Fifteen vessols liavo been sunk by submarines. ' According to Captain IT. G. Tfcwcombo, of the steamer Cole, submarines were sighted on Sunday afternoon SOU yards away. They fired a shot across tho hows of tlie Cole, and then circled round tlio victim. The Germans sent men aboard, and sank .tho Cole with bombs. Tho crew escaped in small .boats, and were picked up by the American steamer Bristol, and brought to New York. One U-boat was Inst seen chasing a vessel. Tho Navy Department was apprised of tho sinking' on Sunday, and. dispatched chasers and other navm vessels to the vicinity. Tho Cole was a coTlier, bound from Boston .to Portland. Tho sinkings have caused a sensation.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LATER MESSAGES (Rec. Juno i, 7.30 p.m.) Now York. Juno 3. I No new 6 lias been recoived as to the fate of the passengers of the City of Columbus. Forty-eight survivors have landed. They state that they were aboard a submarine for eiglifc days. ■ (Rec. June 4, 8.5 p.m.) Now York. Juno 3. Forty-two survivors have landed after being kept prisoner ■ for cloven' days oi\ board German submarines. The naval authorities believes that thero are five submarines operating.—Aus.-N.2. Cablo Assn. The Dutch steamer Texel, 7000 tons, lias been sunk sixty miles off New York. All on board were saved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. SIXTY FISHING SMACKS SUNK (Rec. June 4, 11.35 p.m.) Now York. .Tune 3. The "Tribune" states that sixty fish-' iug smacks, carrying in all four hundred fishermen, wero sunk by submarines. Threo wrecked schooners wero found on the Jersey coast. Other vessels officially reported sunk are the Edward H. Cole, Uattio Dunn, Samuel Hathaway, California, Jacob Haskell, Isabella Willoy, and Herbert Pratt. Captain Newcombe, of the Cole, stated that the submarino which attacked him was two hundred feet long, carried two largo guns, ono forward and one aft, with a smaller gun amidships. It is reported that one submarine lias been caught, and is being taken to New Yolk by naval vessels.—Renter. ATTACKS ON IRISH FISHING FLEET TWELVE BOATS SUNK. London, June 3. On Thursday night a hubmarino attacked an Irish fishing fleet off the coast of County Down, and sank twelvo out of forty boats before it was interrupted. —Router. '