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SUBMARINES SINKING VESSELS OFF TEE ATLANTIC COAST
Npw York Time 3 —Word that the steamer Carolina, carrying 250 passengers, was being shelled by a submarine, was received tins
offpvnnmi hv the New York office of the Porto Rico Steamship Company. The Carolina was enroute here from Porto Rico.
ft The cre^ of the Edward H. Cole, a sailing ship, have been landed. They say the vessel was sunk Sunday afternoon <5 miles off High
land, N. J. The port authorities have barred departures of all ships this morning. Survivors of the Cole say there were two submarines,
nriri ■fiinf tiipy wpvp P’ivBii 10 iiiiiiiitfis in which. to lowtji tlicii litcbOtits.
and that t . 8 department reports that so far no lives have been lost, and that crews have been rescued bv the steam
ship BriaS Three ships were torpedoed 40 miles off the coast of Saregate, N. J- The Navy department has been informed that three
American schooners were sunk off the American coast by submaiines.
Rftston Tune 3 This nort was closed today on account of the submarine activity along the Atlantic coast.
Belfast Ireland, June 3 —Twelve of a fleet of 40 fishing vessels were sunk by submarines off the coast of Ireland. 1 he submarines or
dered the fishermen 'to take to boats and row ashore. No lives were lost.___
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New York, June 4. —German submarine raids have
destroyed probably 12 vessels, including two liners, 450
persons are missing, according to the best information
available today.
An empty lifeboat from the Porto Rican linei Gaio
lina was picked up at sea, and disclosed damage by
shell fire.
Washington, June 4.—A floating mine was picked up
today off the Delaware coast. It has been definitely
settled at 10 vessels have been sunk, totaling 20,000
tons. No transports have been sunk.
Washington, June 5 —Mine sweepers have picked up
a number of mines along the Atlantic coast, the Navy
department announced today. The mines are of Ger
man manufacture and undoubtedly have been strewn by
the raiding German submarines, according to navy offi
cials. .
An American destroyer routed a submarine which
was attacking the French steamship Radio, advices
from off the coast of Maryland today. The submarine
had just bombed the schooner Edward R. Baird. Two
of the subs which have been attacking vessels on the
Atlantic coast have been identified by number
New York, June 5 —The schooner Samuel C. Mengel
is the twelfth victim of the submarine attack, and was
sunk on Saturday 175 miles off New \ ork. Eleven of
the crew were brought here by a Danish steamship.
The Mengel was enroute to New York with a cargo
from the West African coast. The vessel was sunk oy
bombs after the men had taken to lifeboats.
New York, June 6.—Ships sunk along the Atlantic
coast total 14. The sea is strewn with mines, 10 of
which have been removed by sweepers. Fifteen shots |
were fired by submarines at an armed merchantman of
Radio steamship line, which replied several times, and
escaped untouched.
Washington, June 7.—The British steamship Marpathian has
been torpedoed 100 miles off the Virginia coast.
What is now believed to have been a German submaririe-supplv
ship disguised as a neutral vessel was sighted in that vicinity on
May 2.r>.
AMERICAN
Paris, June 4.—The American troops struck their
first blow in the battle of the Marne, fighting side by
side with the French. They hurled back the German
forces which reached the southern bank of the river
Marne for the first time since early in the war. The
Franco-American forces took hundreds of prisoners
after the boches had been thrown back across the river,
and also destroyed the Germans’bridges. American
forces also halted the German advance before Nevilly
woods, where they drove back the Teutons by magnifi
cent counter attacks.
Refugees from the Aisne battle and also irom me
Marne district, today began pouring into Paris by every
available train. Even canal boats and all other means
of transportation were made use of. The arrivals in
clude the entire population of the villages of Limiy and
Couoroq, which have been destroyed. They packed
into boats with all their hastily-gathered possessions.
American Army in France, June 6.—An American
patrol of 30 men penetrated into the Teutons third lines
in the Luneville sector, encountered 200 of the enemy
and attacked them with grenades, bayonets and bullets.
The fighting lasted 30 minutes, and many losses were
inflicted upon the enemy, with Yankee loss slight.
Washington, June 6.—Gen. Pershing today reported
that American troops in Picardy and Lorraine had
penetrated enemy positions, killing and wounding many
Germans.
American Army in ncaray, June (.—American marines at
tacked the Germans and gained three and a half kilometers over a
front of four kilometers and captured 100 prisoners, and the
French, attacking at the same time on their left, took 160 prison
ers. These actions were in the Chateau Thierry sector.
With American Army in France, June 7.—In the fighting north
west of Chateau Thierry it is now positively known that the
Americans defeated 36,000 Prussian and Bavarian lahdwehr. For
three successive days they took hundreds of prisoners and left
heaps of Germans dead on the fields.
FRENCH
Paris, June 1.—The Germans continue to exert tre
mendous pressure against the Allied line along the
Aisna and Marne front, striving desperately to wtden
their salient. While pushing forward on the Marne
river they have reached the northern bank of the Marne
GIVING THEM THEIR OWN MEDICINE
New York, June 6.—Secretary of State Lan
sing, in his address to tlie graduating class of
the Columbia university at the commencement
exercises today, said:
"Prussia having wickedly sought
war, it is the determination of the
American people that Prussia shall
have war, and more war, until
every thought of war is a dh or ant
to the Prussian mind."
SUBS WON'T STOP THE FLOW OF MEN
Washington, June 5.—1“Whatever may be the pur
pose of the submarine raid, and whatever the number
of submarines here now or are to come later to Amer
ican waters, there will be no check in the How of
men to France,” said Secretary Daniels, of the Navy
department, today,
AMERICAN PRISONERS ILL TREATED
Paris, June 1.—American prisoners are being ter
ribly mistreated, according to Russian dispatches.
A prisoner returned from Germany says the Ameri
cans’clothes were taken from them, and they were
confined in huts not fit for humans.
SULZER GETS MONEY FOR HIGHWAYS
Washington, June 1.—The army appropriation bill
passed the House yesterday carrying $10(^000 for the
Alaska Road Commission. Complying with the per
sonal solicitations from Delegate Sulzer, no one
raised a point of order against the item, and Mr. Sul
zer also got an amendment through that will not sub
ject this item to presidential order in the future.
Mr. Sulzer made a strong speech for Alaska roads,
and has hopes of securing an increase in the Senate.
Gen. Richardson asked for $100,000.
between Charteves and Joulgonne, and now stand upon
the battlefield where they were defeated decisively i:$
September, 1914. The French made counter attacks
and drove back masses of German troops in the region
of Soissons and on a line with Chaudun Vierzey, gain
ing ground everywhere, and taking several hundred
prisoners. The Teutons stretch out 13 miles along the
Marne, but are not strong in numbers and have no
where been able to effect a crossing.
(The Marne is a French river north and east of Paris flowing
into the Seine. On September 3, 1914, the Germans crossed
the Marne in their drive toward Paris. On September 6 the
French and British forces, under Gen. Joffre and Gen. Sir
John French, checked the German invasion and drove the
Teutons back across the river in a four-day battle. The bat
tle of the Marne turned the tide of the German invasion and,
with the exception of the thrust toward Calais and the des
perate attempt to capture Verdun, reduced the German cam
paign in the west to defense and devastation, until the present
“smash” was inaugurated.)
British and French forces still hold Rheims, althongh
the Germans continue to develop their drive down the
Ardre valley to encircle the city from the southwest,
i The battle in the south is progressing over a 75 mile
front from Rheims to Noyon.
German airmen made two air raids on the city this
morning, and dropped bombs in the second raid.
Nice, France, June 4-—The first arrivals of wounded
Americans arrived here today. These are troops who
have been amalgamated with French commands.
Paris, June 3.—The Teutons pressed hardest during
last night along the western flank of their salient be
tween Soissons and Chateau Thierry, 41 miles from
Paris. The Allies are holding firmly.
Long-distance bombardment of this city was resumed
this morning.
Paris, June j.—One hundred persons were killed in
an explosion in a war-munitions plant yesterday at
Banssens, in Southern France.
French Armies on the Marne, June G.—American ma
chine gunners, supported by French artillery, are still
holding the south bank of the Marne, between Chateau
Thierry and Joulgonne, a distance of seven miles.
! Paris, June 7.— Aerial observers iu the Toni sector report heavy
! train movements behind the German lines in the direction of St,
■ Miheil.
Long-range bombardment of Paris is again in progress this
! afternoon.
The war announces Trench troops tootc \ miy anu me woous 10
the east of Nueillv Lapotirie station, and along the northern bor
ber of that Tillage.
North of the Aisne the French took Lepont and West Fontencv.
South of the Aisne the French position was rectified, also east of
Ambley and west of Chateau Thierry.
A sharp French attack gained Hill 204 between Marne and
Rheims.
The British retook Blignv, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
North uf Montdidier and west of Novon the French troops took
prisoners in raids.
BRITISH
London. June 1.—Local righting ended in a British
advance in the sector of Aveuley, north of Albert. The
British look prisoners.
London, June 3.—The British line advanced two
points; 213 prisoners and a number of machine guns
and trench mortars were captured.
London, June 5.—The part played by American ma
chine gunners in the defense of Chateau Thierry
bridges is classed by Reuters’ correspondent at French
headquarters, as worthy to be classed with the achieve
ment of American infantry recently at Cantigny. Many
Germans were killed and bridges were blown up, pre
cipitating large numbers of Germans into the river.
The Teutons were drowned amid a rain of bullets from
the opposite shore.
British Army in France, June 6.—The struggle for
mastery of the air grows fiercer daily. Three hundred
and thirty-six German planes were brought down in
less than three weeks, up to June 2, of which 283 were
totally destroyed. During the same period 526 tons of
bombs were dropped, mainly on German towns.
London. June 6.—Last night, for the first time since
the new drive started, the Berlin war office failed to
claim any advance or gains.
London, June 7.—German troops fled before the bayonets of
American marines in an action between Veuille and Torcy ac
cording to the correspondent of the Daily Mail with the American
forces. He states that the number of prisoners taken by the
American may reach 3,000.
NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam, June 1. — A dispatch from German
sources says the Western offensive should practically
end the war in the west. The Falische Zeitung says
“France is beaten, and Britain and America cannot
help her.” The Hamburger Nachriten says “the pres
ent offensive cannot continue at the present rate be
cause of the French reserves, and on account of the
lack of transportation facilities.”
Amsterdam, June 4 —German newspaper correspond
ents claim 175,000 Allied prisoners, 2,000 cannon, and
innumerable machine guns have been captured by the
Teutons since March 21.
~) RUSSIAN CHARADES C
BRITISH
London, June 3. —The discovery in Moscow and Pa
trograd of a counter revolutionary plot which stretches
throughout Russia, is announced today by Russian wire
less. To this plot is attributed in part the mutiny of
the Czech Lovak troops, which have captured impor
tant railway centers, junctions and lines.
IN THE FAR EAST C
JAPANESE
Tokio, June 5.—China will deport all Germans, num
bering about 10,000. It is planned to transport them to
Australia for internment for the duration of the war.
Harry Pratt (The Bloke) and ilJass|
Band” Slater departed ou the Wash
bum for pastures sew.
Dave Strandberg is working about
90 men at bis three plants—the Wild
cat bench, the Up Grade and the Meri
etta. He has lots of water, and every
thing is in fine shape for some big
clean-ups this summer.
Last Wednesday, June 5, the tele
graph station at Kotlik reported St.
Michael bay clear of ice.
Mrs. Florence Porter and son Sidney
left this week for the Outside. They
will return to Minneapolis.