Newspaper Page Text
YOU OWN A LIBERTY BOND HAVE SUPPORTED TOE RED CROSS; NOW BUY W. S. S. WHAT DO YOU WANT? LET THE WASHINGTON HERALD CLASSIFIED PAGE ACCOMMODATE YOU. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1918 ONE CENT With French Our Troops Stop Hun at Pivotal Points of Great Offensive. MACHINE GUN FIRE EFFECTIVE Within Three Hours of Reaching Front Units Make Themselves Felt?Forced March to Main Battlefield. By BERT FORD. Sta> CftrTftpondfit at the International News Scrrlec. With the American Army in France, June 4.?Aided by Ameri cans, the French have stopped the German advance in the second bat de of the Marne. The flower of our troops was hurled against the enemy at the pivotal point in the world's greatest offensive. The Americans tumed back the German horde on the north bank of the Marne, west of Chateau-Thierry, where the enemy had pene trated farthest east of Paris. ENTER ACTION QUICKLY. Within three hours of reaching the front line on the Champagne battlefield, our machine gun units opened on the enemy with telling effect. Our troops now engaged on the Marne had envied those who had scored the victory at Cantigny a week ago and that affair, coupled with the news of a wholesale German offensive, had made them impatient to pitch in. Thus the announcement that they were going to the "big front" was received with cheers. All Aral Employed. * Ambulance units embracing practi-1 rally every arm el we service made a forced march of (deleted by censor.)? kilometers. Every man in the front lin? (dekJ\cd by censor?hours?(deleted by censor Marines lake a prominent part in j the battle. Our left tlank ?aa at tacked six times in forty-eight hours. ! The enemy thrown buck each | time with heavy losses. Some Ger-1 man prisoners were captured. ! Our artillery supp.y and ammuni-j tion trains traveled by night, contlnu- | ally menaced by the German aviators j bombing villages and roads in the, rear of the lines. Did Slat Stop ta Eat. The doughboys did not stop to eat. ; All showed the greatest eagerness to , "get there." They were coated with the chalk dust ot the highways. gi>ing them the appearance of phantoma as they strode along through the r.ight, eager to taste the first real righting. The French soldiers and civilians! were elated over the arrival of the, Americans. French military ex-1 perts make enthlMiastic comments j on the soldierly donduct and gal lantry of our troop*. An American | officer who holds a high command *aid tonight. | "We all feel justly proud of the work of our troops at the Marne. j French headquarters declared today i that it was tin aid uf the Ameri- j cans that enabled the French to stem the enemy tide at Chateau . Thierry." Might Tare Tide. A French colonel said to me to night: f "A half million men of the type that captured Cantigay helped us to make a stand on the Marne suffi cient. in my opinion, to swing the balance of victory in our favor. "They acted with dash and cour age. Both performances are brilli-j ont forerunners of even greater j achievements. America has turned oat soliders worthy of her tradi-. lions." ? ! Wheel by wheel, the French American "seventy-fives' went Into action on the crucial front between ; Solssons and the Marne .last night I and did terrific execution among the I tlervnan hordes. leelaiaMd by Press. , The French press acclaims the American debut on the big battle- ? field with unbounded enthusiasm.. Special French correspondents near j the battle line described admiringly | how the Yankees went into the fray j without a moment's pause, though necessarily tired from their brag: march. On all sides the Americans, are hailed as reserves of the first! order. American patrola and gunners In- I stantly established contact with the Americans* 75's and promptly Joined In the ringing up and dispersing of: % the German columns. Pinse the Enemy. The Americana fought in Indian fashion, from tree to tree, in the. Keullly Wood, making good use of grenades, pistcls. bayonets and ma chine guns. Then with feverish en thusiasm they dashed up the northern edge of the wood and caught the re treating Germans. Hundreds of American guns Immediately raised their ranges and caught the German reinforcements In their fire, while the Yankee infantry splashed through the cntgAon river, vainly cursing the Ger mans and shouting "stop and fight." Pershing's Communique Confirms Heroism. Further confirmation of the heroic action of American troop* In hurling 3erman forces back across the Marne, and defeating him In Neullty Wood. w? given in last night's official com nunlqoe from General Pershing. The eorronuntqua-follows: "In the fighting northwest of Cha fers Thierry, our troops broke up an ot the enemy tp advance to r, - > ? Clemencean Shames Socialists by His Patriotic Appeal By ER > KST P. ORR. InTerDatioaal New* borrtae. Paris, June 4.?In the midst of a heated session, Georges Cleraenceau, the Premier, mounted the tribune of the ? hamber of Deputies this aft ernoon, shamed the interrupt ing Socialists into silence and then aroused them to frantic ? heering when hs declared that France's poilus had been fight ing against odds of Ave to one, without sleep for four days, displaying superhuman heroism. Wild scenes of patriotic ex altation followed. The Premier, the army, Foch and Joffre all were acclaimed by thunderous ovations. The Socialists who at first had attempted to prevent Clemenceau from speaking, de manding impossible explana tions, joined heartily in the cheering and shouted as loud as the others. "Vive la France!" The Premier ad mitted the situation was se rious. but expressed unbound ed faith in the future and ab solute confidence in the war chiefs. by a counter attack drove him back to the north of the wood. On the Marne front a German battalton, which had crossed the river at Jaul sonne, was counter attacked by Frent*h and American troops and forced to rttreat to the right bank. It sustained severe losses in killed and prisoners. Patrolling was active in Picardy and Lorraine. In the Woevre we shelled the enemy posi tions using gas." Bay State Senator, in Fear of Hon, Advised Schoolship Captain in Mid-May to Hug Shore More than a fortnight ago Sen ator Weeks, of Massachusetts, begged Capt. Low, commander of the schoolship Nantucket, to remain inside the Virginia Capes, because U-boats were hovering outside. The conversation took place when the Nantucket, which is maintained by the State of Massachusetts for training her boys as seamen, was anchored In the Potomac. Senator Weeks took luncheon with Capt. Low. MI had no Inside Information o? the matter," said the Senator yes-| terday, when the conversation was recalled to him. "But it seemed to me that it was a course the sub marines were almost sure to take. Sooner or later. I was quite sure, they would try to come to our coast. "So I warned Capt. Low that it would be better to keep the Mas sachusetts boys inside the Virginia Capes If he could do his training there just as well as at sea. *"I knew the Germans were build ing big submarines with a long-/ range cruising radius, and the American coast would be a region they would particularly desire to operate In and carry on a campagin of terror." PwtaffaTt Prcadwt ? Office. President Paes, of Eortugal, has r.otified Preside?t Wilson that he has assumed office and the President Krs "f"t him a cordial telegram wishing well for the new administration and for the allies cause to which it !? Those Newly Twenty-one Must Place Themselves at Disposal of U. S. ? 1,595,708 ARE IN KHAKI First Year's Calls Have Brought This Number to Colors. Teday la Registration Dar, Today is Registration Day in the Dlatrlct of Columbia, and In all other parta of the country every young man who has reached tillage of 21 since last June g must appear before the local draft board of the locality In which he lives and register I himself as being at the service of his country should he be called upon to! serve in her armies. Promptly at 7 o'clock this morn ing thirteen achoolbulldings In the Dilthlct, which are being used as reg* I iatration centers for the eleven local draft boards Into which the city Is divided, open and the work of regis tering the "youngest men- In Wash ington begins. "?''7 Reslatrallu Asked. I Although the registering stations will be open until ? o'clock tonight, registrants have been asked by offi cials of the draft boards to register as early In the day as possible. In or der to prevent any Congestion In the work late tonight, which might make it necessary to continue registration another da*. t ^ All the offices in the District build ingwill be elosed today in order that their employes may assist in the work | of registration. Members of the local I boards will act as chief registrars In charge of the different stations, and the employes of the District building j will serve under them as registrars. are belnK held 'oday In the thirteen schoolhouses, which are i ,u?ed as registration stations. ?r?^C , A0t vthe draft boards have the fact that registrants must register at the registration cen irtit.kH, i, respective localities in which they live. They wiU not be per mitted to register at any other place public school in wh~h center is located in ^thf ?nd?ch Jh.fi . . VJ and "? because of In?, fe t,M" ?ry. Registrants llv , e .."f these divisions may I in their division^ ?' bU,,d'"?s All !? Rfndlneu. U^-H mJ,Ui.?n J"""1* men of the United States, who have attained the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, will register for military service today. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced last night that the regis tration machinery has been com their reai^Cal boa,d" have reported their readiness to proceed. On the eve of the new registration Gen. Crowder Issued ? lenuthv statement reviewing the achieve ments of the Selective Service Law wf??,rat ^"r 0f U" operation. th<"" under orders for mobilisation this month. 1.5D5.708 draft men have already been called stTte. SerT e' General Crowder states. June mobilisation orders aggregate 292.352. .hi"?1 '.lKI,,!rante Placed even In fr?wl are "kely to see ? S . J. C sed hy the Provost Marshal General. He says: w,;r? k*" so iarse ,hat it *!' "??' be "u-d immediately, r i?, number be such as may be IJIled by those who have been ivanah? ,'tan', the "r,t rank ot , JS , or "? Kraat that men S th5 8econd. third or go fVrward!*'8 ?f aVa"ab??* "?* Returns by Friday. Registration places will be open today from 7 a. m. to ? p. m. Itia expected that practlclly complete return, will be In the hands of Washington draft officials by Frl tlfl Tl" n"W "rollment will be much more complete than that of a year ago. General Crow derder believes. | w7oheh.bUKdeD " ?n the J""1"* man who has become 21 during the year to go voluntarily to hls registra tion p ace and perform his duty. If he falls he Is subject to a penalty of imprisonment for one yean Registration. Gen. Crowder expects fully 1.000,000 >ouns inen to register. Of this num- ' ber he estimates that 760,000 will I military auty""1 *Va""b,e for y^Crn .f?V,tW 0t th* "nt .. * dra,t reveals for the hJL v!l* ^ original reglstranu has been completed. ClaaaUestlsa Cnaih^, I^Utrant has been exam ??i~ h availability for military 'ce has been determined" he aaya. "In other words, these mil Uon. of men have been cTssin^ in such a manner that the nation 'or them to ?m~ ? ward Into the army. No call oa OONTINUBD FROM PAOI TWO. t D?ftr?yer Sank. London, June 4 - tk? t??,4, , Stroyer St. May Was ,1? i d?"| llsloo May 31 n." ln ? ool aaf^ ?ar=.^l Woman Clasps Daughter When U-Boat Halts Ship "Scared" When Submarine Fired on Steamer Carolina?Atlantic City "Looked Good to Her" After Horrifying Experience. Atlantic City. N. J.. June 4.-A vtvM and graphic atory of the sinking of the New York and Porto Rican Line steamship Carolina was told by Mrs. A. U Seymour, of New iork, one of the twenty-aeven survivors who land . ed here at 2 o'clock this afternoon to one of the Carolina's life boats. As In the case of the other vessels sunk by this courteous German pirate, the passengers and crew were given sufficient time to get Into the boats and away from the ship before aha was sunk. The Carolina was iHj.n .iUj or torpedoed when the lifeboats had; rowed about fifty yards away, aceota lng te Mrs. Seymour. . Shell Interrupts Dinner. "We had just started fur li.liner," she said, "when a shell screamed a warning across the front of the ship. I can't describe how I felt when we realized that we were, being attacked without warning by a submarine. "I flung my arms about my daugh ter and held her close. My mind was filled with all kinds of fear. I thought of the women and children of France and Belgium and how they had been treated by the Ger mans and ?I don't know whether I screamed or not?it waa awful. "Then came another shot?shrap net, they said It was, and It splin tered something In the bow of the ship. "There were no arms on board and the captain ordered the ship t stopped. In a few minutes some- [ thing scraped along the aide. It waa a boat from the submarine. The officer In comand spoke good Eng lish. He told our oaptain, who met him at the top of the ladder that he was going to sink the ship, but he would give us time to get off In the boats. 3ARRESTSF0R ! PLOT TO STEAL I NAVY MILLIONS | !Vouchers. for Imaginary Ship Repairs Said to * Be Manipulated. | Evidence that points to a plot to] j defraud the government of the United | States out of millions of dollars on j ship repairing contracts has been un-j covered by agents of the Department ? ! of Justice, it was disclosed late last! night. Three men have already been ar- \ rested?one in the Navy Department here, one at Camp Meigs, a private, and another at Richmond. Other ar rests are expected hourly. One of the ^uspects. Department of Justice men allege, has already con fessed. According to a copy of the com plaint on which a search warrant was issued to obtain certain corre spondence in the home of the Rich mond man, the sepciflc offense is a conspiracy to "defraud the United States of America of the sum of $187, 008.04," by < manipulating government vouchers so as to obtain money for imaginary repairs on nonexistent ships. It is understood, however, that the alleged cospiracy contemplated the embezzlement of more than 17,000,000. Names of Tho^e Arrested. The three men arrested are Clyde Waltman, employe of the Navy De partment in Washington; Benjamin CONTINUED ON PAOIC TWO. J MISTAKE SHIP FOR TARGET. Battleship Louisiana Shelled by Sis ter Ship; One Dead. Mistaken for a target, the United States battleship Louisiana was struck by shell from another Amer ican battleship during target prac tice on June 1, and one of her crew was killed. Announcement of the < accident was made by the Navy De-1 partment last night In the following, statement: "The eommander-ln-chclef of the . Atlantic fleet haa reported to the i Navy Department that an June 1..! while certain vesaela of the fleet' were holding target practice, one ship, due | to the bad visibility, mistook an- ] other ship for the target, with the re sult that the U. S. S. Louisiana was ?truck by a shell, and Moaes 1~ Mor- 1 gan, fireman, third claaa, of Gulf . Point Fla? was killed. ?The eommander-ln-chtof la having ? the accident thoroughly Investigated, and a report will be forwarded to.the department aa soon aa It la com pleted." | MOTHER OF 15 IS 4* Chicago. 111., June 4.?A family i that would undoubtedly make the | heart of Colonel Rooaevelt pound: with Joy la that of Mr. and Mra. Max M. Fisher, of thla city. Another , little Flaher recently arrived, mak ing a total of flfteen Fishers be sides the father and mother. Kn. Fisher la 40 ream dU. The ?t?Mt eWUtt ; ~H. examined th. .hip'. p.ptr, I and the. waited with hi. men while | we acrambled Into the boat.. HI. men were heavily armed. There were more than 200 pas .engem *nd more than luo in the Bm ' i *,",?'" and children went ' w,nt to aay that the crew. I InJSlf ?' them could ?ot " EngUah. acted splendidly. ?.wrIkJ0aU 'owcred and when "" Uken og th? ?h'P iTJh? ?^ay- .We could ?? "?? UB rt ?'her "o*18 bobbing eV-v m? Wer' a11 afraid. wc expected the Ger roans to ahcll ua. whZ* ,h!re aboui *,rda awav ?? ? cam* * b"ndln* Hash " **fu' explosion that rocked SLZTL'*" know "hether they ahelled, bombed or torpedoed the Car tSXtn.** " C?Uld ~ ?haw Beat.'Scattered. -In the night we were .eparated from the other boat.. Lieutenant Mc Laren and Chief Purser Nort* looked thMr "?Wt^n^fU"y' The men d'd trl!!f J***" ke*P our spirit. up and dur,n* food'th?jWM^MW* *" Wh,t ov?i^rJ(ITbey &TK ,W?en. ?e sighted land we were HOOVER DOWNS! PLAN TO STOP I BEER MAKING 1 H-s Opposition to Randall Amendment Insures Its Defeat. Food Administrator Hoover came out flatly yesterday In opposition to the Randall prohibition amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill designed to stop the manufacture of hhZr Kand W,ne- Th? ""re matter referr<*d ^ him by Presi ft eer^.i ?fcand bls declsion makes it certain that the Senate will re fuse to adopt the amendment. The reasons given by Hoover for wlne'ltlS: Prohibition of beer and 1- The amount of grain used In be^r-making is negligible in com panion to the sire of the yearly crop while the manufacture of wine involves the use of no foodstuffs that could be otherwise employed. Ite<i fh? ?nd w,ne were Prohib ited the country would be put on a Whiskey basis, there being three years- .upply of whiskey on hand' mad? Position known to Senator Phelan of California ?.natna, Ph I"0" hl"' this afttrnoon. fee ..x1'' Tl,lt wa" n'ade af ter It had been learned that the President had written a letter to Senator Sheppard of Texas, leader of the prohibition forces in the ut> -M hh?T 'n r'"eh the President said he had submitted the question to. Hoover fqr flnal decision as to whether the food conservation pol '7 ?-,d aM'd by placing a P?hlbltl?n on jvine and beer ^78ide,,t ,n hl? ,etter to Senator | ?^PPardf aU? ?aid that he believed I the best Interests of the country * . aerved by not disturbing the *ave hlm?nfrS^.?f last year- which 2 e him the discretion of cutting Percentage of alcohol in i if?j, i? ' been done' 'he letter I hy reducing the alcohol con-! tent, of beer to S 3-4'per cent, it was "!?'ed " the opinion of the PresN I i"? not considered In the same category as beer, for the JIT." i atJ' lnV0,Ve' ,he 'o"" of no foodatnfp8, but makes use of gram*** Wp*ood 7dId. V. .K^ ? Administrator Hoover quoted that fhFeS Senator Phelan to show wL amount of grain, including barley, corn and broken rice, con sumed by the brewers now amounts IVehV-600'000 bU8hela a which se per cent 1. saved for cattle fodder. This 1. ,e? than SoZ.W Suction a,year' and the who'e pro- ! duction of corn and barley |n I9ifl wa? 1400,0(10,00(1 bushels, while this ' y%'r r W'", ^ bunker crop.I Mr. Hoover Is not concerned An I ?' f00d conaervatlon," Sen ator Phelan ?Ud. "On the other h. J* the Randall amendment and the Jones amendment, which would prohibit .h th,H manufac,u" ofwlne and beer, would prove a wreck to their ca?e..for the reason that there i. , tb7e,7ear "?PPIy of whiskey on hand and If we atop beer and wine then *?"'d an orgy of whlakey drinking 'ie the nagon!^ WWCb W??M d?~^" I o^thT1 ^H?n ?th* *xpreMed views of tho _Fr?>4e?lt and Mr. Hoover th? e^ltln ,*? d"Position to change the existing law, which ha. reduced U? production of^beer nearly ? S SHIP LAUNCHING NOW GROWS AT | RUSHING SPEED May U. S. Output a Record j For Any Nation Any Month. BUILD 263,571 TONS, Chairman Hurley Predicts! Still Swifter Movement Soon. Official figures made public yes terday by Edward N. Hurley. Chair man of the United States Shipping Board, show that May was the greatest shipbuilding month in the history of the country, and that the I United States probably produced; ' more tonnage In that month than j ? any other nation in the world. | The progress in May la encour aging because ft shows that the j shipbuilding machinery of the coun try Is beginning to move, and should I pick up speed rapidly as it gets un jder way. "We are Just moving along now." | paid Chairman Husley, ?'malting j about ten miles an hour. But when j we get to going good, and the throt i tie is pulled wid?* open, we'll toyi I with sixty miles an hour on the up- 1 i grades and show some real speed ion level road.** J In the month of May there were completed and delivered to the | Shipping Board a total of 44 ships. > 43 of steel and one of wood, with a j total of 263.571 tons. The greatest production in any previous month was In March. 1918, when 21 steel ships, totalling 172.C11 tons were delivered to the Shipping Board. M lMote Than f.aat Mntk. The advance over the previous j high record for a single month was [23 ships or 90,960 tons, and over , April the advance was 14 ship* or J 103.285 tons. Th#? output of May ' was three times that of January of I the present, year, and production Is | doubling over the first three months of the year. The May output brings the total ? deliveries since September. 1917, up I to 170 ships, aggregating 1.112.897 tons. The record pre-war year in American shipbuilding was 1901. The output ? (exclusive of the Great Lakes) was 402.136 tons, or a monthly average of 33.511 tons. Next month the ship yards are expected to complete more tonnage In the month than for the best year of production In the pre-war period. Below Is the record of the ship pro [ duction to date, in dead-weight tons, of the two leading shipbuilding na tions of the world, and unless the 11 inures for the United Kingdom show exceptional advance, the United States, from a poor third among the ?hipl>uilding nations, will have forged in a little more than a year to first place: United United States. Kingdom. January 88.507 87,852 i February I23.<i25 150.057 ! March f?2.?ll 252.511 i April 160.9* l?M>ro . May 263,571 (not obtained! Britinh Make Great Strides. The January figures, which give jthe United States a slight lead over I the United Kingdom in ship produc- j i tion, are not representative and have ' no real meaning In the progress of j shipbuilding. Both nations labored 1 i under severe handicaps. But in the j last sixty days the United Kingdom has made wonderful strides in speed j Ing \ip shipbuilding and is endeavor- \ ! ing to meet the friendly rivalry of I | tlio United Stales by establishing i [ huge new shipbuilding plants, j Special commissioners have been j j sent to the United States to inspect I CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. M.VJ. GEN. H. C. SHARP IS SENT SOUTHEAST # . ' Relieved from War Council lo Com-1 mand of Department. TTnd?>r an order made public yes terday MftJ. Gen. Henry O. Sharpe, Quartermaster General. Is relieved from duty with the War Council and is assigned to the command of the Southeastern Department. The re-assignment of General Sharpe marks the pass in ft from Washington circles of another of 1 the prominent army officials under j Are during the series of Congres sional investigation! early this year. The Quartermaster's Department was criticized in connection with charges relative to materials which entered Into the manufacture of1 uniforms, the charge made being that shoddy was used in large amounts. Subsequent to the investigations.' Secretary Baker announced reorgan izations by which MaJ. Gen. William ! Crozler. of the Ordnance Depart- j ment, was relieved from hla post j and assigned with General Weaver and General Sharpe to the War Council. Since that time General Weaver has been retired under the age limit regulations. General Cro zler has recently returned to thla country after making a survey of munition factories of tba Allies. MaJ. Gen. R. K. Williams is now actlnr quartermaster, aa tba ap pointment of Gen. Sharps to that position la for a 4-year term which will not expire for two yaara. Offi cials yesterday declined to state whether any officer wHl be named to tba place is the War Council ??????? Jersey Seas Astir with Search and Rescue?Patrols Intercept At tack on French Steamer. SIXTEEN ON CAROLINA MISSING Boatload of Exhausted Survivors Met in Atlantic City Surf by Boardwalk Pa raders While Band Plays. Hun U-boats still ravage the Atlantic coast. Far from fleeing from United States naval forces, the Kaiser's submarines are still at tempting their blockade of America's largest ports. Late yesterday morning an American de stroyer drove away a German submersible just as it was about to destroy a French steamer? the Radioleine. The Radioleine has since reached an At lantic port. Still another ship was added to the toll of the undersea boats, for the destroyer reports .taking aboard two men of the crew of the Ed ward Beard, which was bombed and sinking. OFFICIAL NEWS OF ATTACK. ' Official news of the continued activity on the part of the submarines is contained in this bulletin. The Navy Department ha* received a dispatch from a United States destroyer stating that at 9:30 yesterday mont ing he interrupted an attack by an enemy submarine on the French steamer Radioleine about sixty-five miles off the Mary land-Coast The destroyer also took on board two men from the Edward Beard which was bombed and sinking. A later report was received stating that the Radioleine had arrived at an Atlantic port CAROLINA'S PASSENGERS SAFE. New York. June 4.?Speculation as to the fate of the passengers i and crew of the steamship Carolina, of the New York and Porto Rico ; line, was ended today when survivors landing at Lewes. Del., Atlantic City, and Philadelphia brought the news that the ship had been boarded by an officer and boat's crew of a German U-boat at 6 o'clock Sunday evening and all hands ordered to the boats. Some 300 of the Carolina's passengers and crew now are on board \ the schooner Etta 8. Douglas, which is due at an Atlantic port about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Of the others, twenty-seven were landed at Atlantic City this afternoon, nineteen at Lewes. Del., nineteen at | Vineyard Haven, and seven at Philadelphia. The survivors landing at \ Lewes brought the information that sixteen others had been drowned Sunday night in a thunderstorm, which capsized the motor launch in j which thirty-five persons had set out for shore when the U-boat men 1 took possession of the Carolina. The exact number on board the Carolina is not known, as the ! passenger list has not yet been received from Porto Rico. U-Boat Toll 11; Problem Is Unsolved Submarine Now Hiding Suc cessfully or Making Run for Secret Base. The German U-boats, which have taken a toll of eleven American commerce ships off the New York and New Jersey coast within the last ten days, are either successful ly hiding, ready to strike at the next safe target, or streaking away for a secret base of refuge and new supplies. % No officer of the United States navy has yet had a look at the prowling raiders. The evidence that they have been in American waters exists only in the known record of destruction and statements J of the helpless civilian sailors, I some of whom were prisoners for many days. Om r-Boat OaVyV The facts relating to ships de stroyed are irrefutable, but it has not been established definitely that more than one U-boat has pene trated American home waters. There is nothing in the official reports to verify the statement that five enemy submarines have been seen off the Virginia Capes. Navy officials consider It highly probable that the object reported as a companion to the raider which sank the Schooner KdwaM H. Cola off Barn eg at, N. J.. 8unday. was | nothing more than a decoy. 17 UW At RfMri Atlantic City. N. J.. June (.-Tww ty-aevrn exhausted survivors of the steamship Carolina, funk by ? V boat Sunday evening, about 1M miles off the I?elaware Capea. came ashore here thia afternoon in one of the life boata of the ill-fated ship Among them were Bve women ind two children. One woman carried ashore in a noom relived aa a band struck up the "Star Spangled Baner" and. rais ing herself on her elbows, cried out: "We're aafe ? safe at last ? thank God!" Then she sank into uncon sciousness. All those in the boat were lightly clad and suffering from hunger, hav ing had nothing to eat but a few biscuits from the time the ship was sunk until they arrived hare. In fact the noonday meal on Sunday waa the last they had. the ship having been sunk lust aa they were about to alt down to dinner. The Shrinere* parade was passing along the board walk when the lifeboat was sighted just outside the breakers. The parade was broken up Immediately, both pint en and spectators joining In the rush to the beach to meet the rar \ Ivors of the Carolina as they came sshore at the foot of Sooth Caro lina avenue. Play "(Mar IhhM Banner." The. Lulu Temple Band, of Phila delphia. which had been leading the parade, struck np "The Bur Spangled Banner" aa the lifeboat came through the breakers and the thousands who had rushed to the scene tossed their hats In the air and cheered Their enthusiasm snail to put new Ufa into the maenad, although aavatal ware swooning frowi the reaction after the strain of their teriiMe ezper lence. When stimulants had been ad ministered to the rescued the women and children wore taken to the Hotel Thurher. where the sur vivors of the freighter Texel. who