Navy tightens anti U boat measures amid sinking rumors
Navy officials deny submarine attacks on American transports while warning against spreading rumors. They outline steps to protect troop movements and caution that survivors are discouraged from talking. Officials declined to confirm reports of submarines on the Mexican coast or of a shelling off the Delaware capes.
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U Boat Victims On This Side Of Atlantic
Reports from multiple sources list nine vessels sunk off the American coast by German submarines. Two passenger liners are missing and feared sunk. The missing ships include the Carolina, a 5,093 ton liner, and the City of Columbus, a 5,633 ton liner. Also listed are the Herbert L. Pratt oil tanker, and several schooners and steamships sunk or beached along Barnegat, Cape Henlopen, and Delaware–New Jersey waters.
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Forty Casualties In Today's List In US Forces
Washington June 4 forty casualties in the American expeditionary forces were announced by the war department with 3 killed in action, 2 died of wounds, 6 from disease, 19 from accident and other causes, 8 wounded severely, 1 wounded slightly and 1 prisoner. The list adds 30 previously missing now prisoners, plus several officers listed as dead or missing. Names span Lieuts to Privates with origins in Missouri Michigan New York and more, reflecting numerous individual losses and ongoing war reporting.
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German Sweep on Paris Is Balked
Paris dispatch reports German efforts to push on Paris failed along a 70 mile front from Noyon to Rheims. French counterattacks, heavy losses to Germans, and local Soviet era style heroism described. Notable acts include a French machine gunner at Fort Pomelle stopping two tanks and an Alpine Chasseur unit reinforcing British lines as the German onslaught waned.
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