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gation. iiss, Upon | their cvivel here the men reported to the Office of the United States Shipping Commissioner. There was considerable secrecy about their arrival, - but, according to the story told, U boats appeared on both | sides of the schooner when it was seventy-five miles south- | east of the Jersey Highlands, and bombs were placed \ According to the stoty told, two submarines appeared, | one on either side of the schooner, put crews aboard, | placed bombs and blew up the vessel. i One member of the crew of the schooner Cole dactivdd the _ German submarines were first sighted at a distance of about 300 yards, They circled around the American vessel and hoisted the German naval ensign. | The schooner was making about three knots in a light breeze, and the submarines had no trouble in making her halt. One shot | ‘was fired across the veséel’s bows from a gun mounted on the for- ward deck of the U boats. " | Just as the schooner halted the smoke of a steamer was seen on the horizon. One submarine immediately sheered off and made | away in pursuit. _ The other U boat came closer alongside, and the commander | shouted through a megaphone, giving the Americans ten min- utes in which to leave their vessel. The submarine launched a small boat, rowed alongside the schooner, planted bombs in the hold and blew up the ship. The men, in their small boats, were picked up by the Ameri- can steamer Bristol and brought into New York. The schooner was en route from Boston to Norfolk with coal. The Edwin H. Cole was of 1,395 tons and owned by Crowell & Thurlow of Boston. Immediately upon receipt of the first authentic news of the presence of two German submarines off the coast word was flashed to all the Jersey Coast Guard stations to be prepared to rescue survivors of submarine attack who might be making their ‘way to the coast in small boats. So far the absence of any indication of submarine raids close te shore denotes that whatever damage the underwater cruisers have done has been well out to sea. As soon as port officers had questioned Capt. Newcomb of the schooner Edward H. Cole the port of New York was closed, “with certain restrictions,” by order of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. ‘The submarine net was swung across the Narrows. The Maritime Exchange denies the report that it possesses tthe names of fifteen vessels sunk by the U boats and is only wait- ing permission from Washington to give the names publicity. A passenger liner from Bermuda which arrived here to-day passed through the zone of the submarines’ operations last night but caught no sight of them. This ship was held up twenty-four hours before leaving Bermuda because of a report of submarines lurking off the Atlantic coast. Marine insurance rates jumped here to-day with the sub- marine raid. The rates were practically doubled. Some refused to accept risks at any price. At the offices of George Heillesen, Inc., owners of the Isabel D. Wiley, in the Produce Excharfge, it was said this afternoon that further than being notified of the loss of the vessel, nothing fur- ther had been learned. The schooner left here on May 1 for New-| ¢. ‘port News to load coal for Montevideo, Uruguay. Her crew was ‘composed of the followin; : Captain, Thomas G. Thomaston; First Mate, Karl J. Johan- son; Second Mate, Louis E. Rasmussen; Seamen Thorwald Han- sen, H. E. Willsen, Alexander Ealmgren and A. Carlson; Cook, William E. Nurse, colored. The cook had ordered that $60 of his ‘monthly wages be turned over to his wife, who lives at No. 157 Ww. 140th Street, this city. SURVIVORS TELL HOW U BOAT BLEW UP THE SCHOONER COLE Crew Given Ten Minutes to Leave Ship— Rescued After Four Hours at Sea and Brought to Port. boats to) ‘The first victims of the U | ©6¢04064. seoeteb a eeren nes arrive in New York were Capt. H. G. | 4 Newcomb of the American schooner Edward H. Cole and his crow of} ‘eleven men, brought to an American port by the American steamer Hristol. ‘Their craft was sunk by bombs placed by the crow of a giant cruiser sub Marine seventy-five miles southeast of Atlantic Highlands at 4 o'clock | ‘yesterday afternoon their arrival Immediately upon Capt. Newcomb and his sailors re- Ported to United 8! Shipping Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn their experience at the hands of the Ger- Man raider. Here Capt. New ates is Cap 604 S440 0-24-2066 f dtrectensee nese nes speeneteeaeee ey gomb's story “My schooner was laden with coal and bound from Norfolk to Portland, Me. Of course, we hadn't the least suspicion German submatines were | bout until at 4 o'clock yesterday CREM EEE REE Eee Oe OE OOF IMternoon we saw two subs on port < and starboard of us about thre buns 7 Ee RS CR @red yards away, Thinking they | ang a first officer with an armed Were Aimercan war craft, we ne | guard c ey Perey signa) giving our name and fhe cote wlan) giving our name an’ |GIVEN TEN MINUTES TO TAKE flags were run up on the two subs and | TO BOATS. one of them ran up a code signal to| + ryou have just ten minutes to take stand by. to your boats before this schooner Doewe were no finbbergasted welis destroyed,’ he said to me, I im- hardly know what to do, but I gave| mediately gave ordera to the men to the order to sian! by, the belm went lower away our two boats and I went “over ani we came up into the wind rs | below to get my chronometer and THE EVENING WORLD, ship's papers. When I came up the German first officer pointed to west- ward and said, ‘There's where land lies; it’s not far.’ “Then we abandoned the schooner. The German boat put back to the sub and returned—I suppose with bombs. We saw the Germans busy | on the deck of the schooner for a time, then they pulled away, There was a succession of loud roars and the Edwprd H. Cole broke in two and sank at nce? | “Just then} the smoke of another ship abpegred oh the horizon and the German(Y>boat which had been hdv: ering im; the offing put after the | smoke, running ot a high rate of !wpeed of the surface. The craft | whith had held us:up submerged, | “The whole business did not occupy | more than a balf hour, and we were | alone on the sea, schooner gone and | nothing but a big daze in the mind. | We were picked up at 8 o'clock tnat | |night by the Bristol.” Capt. Newcomb saw of the mer she was making off at The lai other | full speed. The members, of the crew of. the Edward H. Cole were: H. G, New- comb, captain, Boston; Robert Lathi- | ee, first mate, No, 47 Neptune Koad, East Boston; William Jones mate, No, 47 Jackson Avenu: ett, Mass.; D. Giro, cook, No. fayette Street, Portland, Me; WwW. J. Harker, engineer, No. 1007 North 26th Street, Camden, N. J., and the fol- lowing seamen: Karl W. Teikka, No. 176 East 1224 Street, New York; John Kumister, No, 26 South Street, New York; Otto J. Laitinen, same addres: John Olnen, same address; B. B.! Samuelson, same address, and Karl V. Karisson, same address, WORD OF U BOATS FLASHED TO A BIG LINER, been checked sree tenn MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1918. Battle as 1 t Extends To- day From Noyon to Rheims; French H ave Made Gains Between Marne e and Ourcq Latest reports show that all attempts to make further headway on the western salient toward Paris have Word of the activity of the German submarines off the coast was flashed by wireless to a big lner which reached an Atlantle port to-day, ac- cording to L. K. Torbet, of Chic who is returning from a special Y, M. | C. A. mission abroad. He said: | “At 7 o'clock Inst night the fift two cabin passengers were giving a little dinner to the Captain and of- ficera of the ship. In the midst of the festivities the Marcon! man came OPEN PORT AGAN IN PHILADELPHIA; OTHERS STAY SHUT Boston, peniae and| Norfolk Ordered Closed to Outgoing Ships. in and spoke a hurried word to the Captain, who Immediately went on deck. Soon he sent back word for every deck officer to report to him, and we noticed that the speed of the ship was materialy increased, “Soon word @pread through the pa mengers that submarines were wor) ing havoc somewhere between our ponition and the coast and there was @ great deal of excitement. All night ship raced at top hatetpl changing | | were lasued here to-day to pr@vent or course every few minutes, ut | 7 af ea! we heard nothing definite until we | SY vessels from leaving the port of reached port to-day.” Philadelphia. Capt. Arthur Hart of the Bristol,| After being in éffect several hours which picked up the survivors of th the orders were cancelled this after- PHILADELPHIA, June 3.—Orders after 1 had picked up the captain and crew of the Cole," he sa lonat the torpedo hit us, wi t Ni uthorities announced at ¢ dived instantly. 1 belleve a ta Fohhbal ly rasip ceeanr aati which wae tne ‘ateen at | o'clock this afternoon that no Ameri my boat ma rmans think «| can vessels had been sunk off the New kun was conce reason they we and for that England Cou » quick to dive out | firing at sea. I belle sound of attacks ¥ WARNING. GAME ‘GREAT FLEET RD SSMERSL CHUSERS TO HUNT SUBMARINES The first intimation of this came | in an address delivered in Paris by Georges Loygues French Minister of Marine, on May 12, He said that the Germans had constructed a new type of eubmersible cruiser with which to prey on shipping and Allied trans- ports. Late in May it was reported om- clally in @ British Admiralty state- ment that 4 German submarine of the cruiser class had been sunk by a British convoying submarine, “in the latitude of Cape Bt. Vincent,” the southwestern point of Portugal. Then came, in rapid succession, this was the on other ships.” There have been reports for some time that the German Admiralty ¢ on (Continued From First Page.) large guns, one forward and one aft, and a smaller gun amid- ships. He states that he saw dis- tinctly one other submarine be- side the one which attacked him, the second submarine being in the near vicinity, submerged, with her periscope showing.” All along the coast line naval flying boats, submarine chasers and num- berless other naval craft immediately got into action. All officials declared that the Navy re- | Department was fully equipped to ort gubmarines operatin | Lado HORSTIR p & IM) meet the thrust at the very fountain West Indian waters, and last week ®| head of the flow of American troops captain of a steamship landing at} 4, 4, Curope, and that all its agencies Norfolk reported having sighted what | were being brought into full force to he believed to be a German sub-|find the submarines and destroy marine somewhere off the Carolina | (em Sa sia exclasnia’ 1 Thin statement was made at the Capes, Later it was explained by | Committee on Public Information Washington that this boat might | 5 tary Daniels states that have been an American submersible Ni Department is taking the necessary ste ‘ shipping along tt 21 reports were current that | Railroad Administra three vessels had been sunk in a mys Jannounced tt will terious manner off Chesapeake Bay gece sue Dane 1S Marine circles, which had been | ging and men will ty plexed by the unexplained disap-| ply the vessels and the: Pp » of the United States collier | nished as rapily ax possi Cyclops, were stirred by the reports of tho discovery of derelicts off the BELMONT PARK mink WINNERS, on its way to Europe, to safeguard ast,” On May to-day raliroad astwise trade, 1 how many to sup- will be fur- ran coast, and it was believed that Ger- man submarines were at work, One] FIRST RAC Jot these derelict, the Edna, of | Knoenr Aye sewn Mobile, Ala, was towed to Five/even, first; Litue |riques), 4 to 1, 8 Fathom Lightship, off the Delaware reddy on | River, and it was found that there | 5,4 tos ; 4 selow | bala, Fra fe was @ large hole in her hull below | Bala. F Devarinen the water line and Sea Tale ‘also ran. Reports by the British Admiralty} SECOND RACE—The International state that these submersibles are 460) Steeplechase Handicap; $1,000 feet long, thirty-six feet broad, with| two-year-olds and up. abou engines of 20,000 horsepower, ‘Their | milea—Belle of Bryn Mawr, wpeed on the surface ts reported at | Bush), 18 to 5, even, 2 to 6. firet; Brent twenty-eight Knots an hour; sub. | mood, 150 (F Williams), § to 1, oven, t meised Mfteen knots, “They ean entry |$4 4agegnas Prumpater, 4B (D Nveray, seventy-Ave torpedoes, 150 mines and | Cherry, Malotte. Brooke, Bet and Bari} mount lx six-inch guns, Lignt also rem. Bchooner Cole, ‘sald to-day he owed | oon, the escape of ‘his steamer to a can- | deeds yas awning over his stern. BOSTON, June 3—The port of Bos- “At 8.10 o'clock last night, just| tom was closed this afternoon on ac-| | count of submarines operating off the | ning tower of a submarine came up ' | not far off my port bow. I got one| The port of Provincetown was also food look at it and expected to feel | cloned, + | Last wi PERSHING GIVES THE LIE TO CLAIM MADE BY BERLIN — |Says ThereIsNo American Depot at Point Re- | ported to Mave Been Taken. (AMERICAN REPORT) WASHINGTON, June 3.—Gen, Pershing’s communique of June 2 can depots were captured by the enemy. | “The German official communique,” Pershing said, “says: ‘France. en Tardenois.’ This statement is absolutely untrue, there being no Amer- ican depots in that region.” FRENCH GAIN MUCH GROUND IN THEIR COUNTER-ATTACKS Hold Positions Against German Drives on Road |, to Paris—Take Hundreds of Prisoners. [FRENCH REPORT] June 3,—Following is the text of to-day s War Office re PARIS, v ‘ 7 6 3.—The po of night. | NORFOLK, Va, Jun Phe port “Seven different times yesterday | of Norfolk, Newport News, was clos noon before we picked up the|to-day to all outgoing vessels. | Cole'e crew we heard the noise of Rumors were current thAS a U boa “Our troops continued their counter-attacks during the night along the whole front between the Ourcg and the Marne and gained ground at | several points. A violent German attack, delivered or both sides of t% jroad between Cnateau Thierry and Paris, was broken up by the Frene fire southeast of Bouresches. E@erywhere else the Fiench maintainei their positions. “The losses suffered by the enemy in these actions were heavy. French took hundreds of prisoners.” BRITISH GAIN; CAPTURE 200 | IN NORTHERN FLANDERS Machine Guns and Trench Mortars Brought| Back by Haig Troops—German Raid Repul sed. [BRITISH REPORT] LONDON, June 3.—The British last night gained ground slightly in a local operation on the northern side of the Flanders salient, the War Office announces, Nearly'200 prisoners were taken. Tne statemen follows : “Successful local operations were carried out by our troops last night in the neighborhood of Vieux Berwuin and Merris. Our line has been advanced slightly af these points and 193 prisoners and a number of machine guns and trench mortars have been captured by us. Our casualties were light. uccessful raids resulting in the capture of twenty prisoners, three machine guns and a trench mortar were carried out by us also southeast of Arras, northwest of Lens and west of Merville. “A hostile raiding party was repulsed south of Villers Brettoneux.” ALI TROOPS RESCUED | WHEN LINCOLN SANK Loss of Life in Torpedoing of U. S. Transport Confined to the Crew. | discharged, sinking the ship in elhteen minutes, The submarine was not sighted until after the torpedoes were shot Ame destroyers returning to port with survivors sighted a submarine at Saturday and attacked it, The es to the Navy Department the result. not repo The Navy Department announcement said “The small loss of life on the Prest- dent Lincoln was due to the thorough discipline of the ship's company and excellent seamanship of the command- ors and officers of the vessels con- cerned, particularly the commander of the transport, Vice Admiral Sims says in his report." WASHINGTON, June 3.—All who were passengers and all the re- those turning army of officers and men on the transport President Lincoln were saved after she had been torpedoed ‘This confines the loss of life to the | crew of the ship. None of the survivors was seriously | inured, The transport was attacked at 9:63 A.M. May a1. LOST, FOUND AND REWARD “aight, fn the stlghborhooal of Te os diamond and saimhire serrice Mrewers oh gah ‘it veturned: Co a 653 oth Are. made public to-day, denies the German official report that Franco- Arner | | American depots of numerous extent entered into our possession at Fere} The FORTIFIED FORES STS. BAR THE ROAD OF GERMANS TOWARD RUSSIANS DROWNED BY THE BARGE LOAD, TIED HAND )AND FOOT " Victims of TBolshevikt at E upa- fon, Crimei, Washed | Up by Black Sea. AMSTERDAM June Maas burials of corp washed up by the Black Sea are described by Edmont Zechlin, the Lokal Anzeger's corre- spondent in Ukraine. Many of the bodies were horribly mutilated and their hands and feet were tied to-| gether. ULS. FLYERS DOWN AD ENEMY PLANES, LOSING ONLY SEVEN Four Against Six in One Battle Billet Passes Betiveen the Legs of One American AMERICAN ARMY INV 2 (Associated which the As show tiying made an WITH THE FRANCE, Press) June sunday, Compilation to-day Press secured that the American the Tou envinble , soclated sector have over . since April American pursuit unit These were the victims of the Bol- ! shoviki at Eupatoria, Crimea, ‘They were sentenced to death, taken out Into the Black ‘a in barges afd drowned in a manner recalling the horrors of the French revolution | One woman named Njem mem- ber of the Bolshevik Committee, was arrested by the Germans. Whenever the death sentence « ned to hang in the balance she cast the deciding | vote with a shout, “The revolution | must seo blood! j | The correspondent tells of a Rus-| ‘sian Lieut who, thr years of h umpaigni ood in the front o: ins of h ental home wait r the waves cast up the co! of his father and mother ‘ELECTRICITY 10 REMAIN mn Company Cor hough — Losing | Money, It Says. The seven cents per kilowatt hou for electricity in Manhatt an and ounced to-| ” ached after J. W. Lieb Vice-President and general manager cf| the New York Edtson ny, sald hin: company was ‘willife te pay the present rate without a protest for other half yeur, despite the fact that it] s losing money. The electric rate in Manhatan and the! | Bronx was 8 cent reey, 1916 and }1917. On Jan. 1 the Commis: | sion ordered it reduced to 744 centa,| and to 7 cents six months la order to maintain the right further reduetions in electric Commission has kept alive the Thus the hearings were adjourned Jin January until to-day, when the requested @ further tponement, | ment Publ no cont ned by the that it has ‘ol over Lamp: ‘U BOAT CHASERS LEFT NAVAL BASE LAST KIGHT | Ofticers | ind Sailors Hastily to Quarters | Juarte Vay Summor ack to quarters © naval z and put out to sea, Hydtoairp! n ng out ove nmer manoeuvre: It was reported that firing sea had been heard. Later it was said that | this probably was @ salute to a visiting rear Sl iim ae ANDY IS A NEC! received from the present time it © thousands of now is the tim Loft Sweets. 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Two are prisoners of the Germans and the ill-lucked aviator ts certainty, rained by the Amert- nportant when the most of the t down have been loss in these) as been doubly great for th All the American machin st Were monoplanes, wiator wae o-day, a bullet the sever in the fate of to-day not known for The torle vic rmans. which nent traversed the ~ and passed be- ‘The bullet , Mut other- plane # legs n done a field on which we viators Americans sult, but the German his escape ng a fight yesterday between six Ger- s north of Toul one of the in pilots shot down an enemy ma biplane, “KNEW SUBMARINES. LURKED ON THIS SIDE OF ATLANTIC General Warnings Issued by Gove ernments, Say Officers of an eamship. 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