The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . quarter. Then one of the gunners, Goodwin, fired a shotand registered a hit. Many passengers thought the sub-marine had been sunk, but it was afterward learned throughthe British secret service that a l^-boat had crawled toKiel, with its periscope and part of its conning tower shotaway and with the dead body of its captain aboard, thechief officer reporting that the captaiii had been killed bya shot fired from the merchantman Several daysafte
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . quarter. Then one of the gunners, Goodwin, fired a shotand registered a hit. Many passengers thought the sub-marine had been sunk, but it was afterward learned throughthe British secret service that a l^-boat had crawled toKiel, with its periscope and part of its conning tower shotaway and with the dead body of its captain aboard, thechief officer reporting that the captaiii had been killed bya shot fired from the merchantman Several daysafter this incident a lieutenant and some gunners on theAmerican tanker Vacuum, which was sunk by a submarine,lost their lives. These were the first ipen in the AmericanNavy to be killed in the war. The weekly statement of ships sunk, made public on April15, showed that 40 vessels of over 1,600 tons each had beensent to the bottom by mines or submarines. This was thegreatest number of vessels reported s\ since the BritishGovernment began to issue weekly statements of losses. Thereport also showed that more vessels than formerly had been. TUB SIIU THAT FIRED OUE FIRST SHOT IN THE WAR Tlie Mongolia, a freighter, from which off the English coast on April 19th. the 142d anniversary of the Battle of Lexinstoii,*a shot was fired that sank a (lernian submariiK THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR ^uecessful in evading attack, the figures being 27, as against1!*, the previous high figure. It was in these weeks of Aprilthat unrestricted submarine warfare reached its most por-tentous aspects. Great, therefore, was the relief in GreatT^ritain when, quite unexpectedly, the flotilla of Americastorpedo-boat destroyers, commanded by Admiral Sims, ar-rived in British waters. A crowd of several hundred per-sons, some of them carrying American flags, had lined thewaterfront in Queenstown awaiting their arrival, and cheeredthe destroyers from the moment when they sighted them
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