British Steamer Coulmore Reported Attacked Near American Coast; Bronte Torpedoed Washington, Nov. 1. ISTRUCTIONS were given American warships and seaplanes today to ce-operate with the Coast Guard Service in the search for the torpedoed Bri steamer Coulmore, reported to have been attacked by a U-boat 350 miles from Boston, just outside the neutrality zone established by the Panama Pan-American Conference.
These orders were given by the War Department in the cause of humanity, it was announced, and not because the attack was made very close to, if not within, the American neutrality zone. An American Coast Guard cutter arrived last night on the spot at which the Coulmore reported herself to have been attacked. But the would-be rescuers found only barren miles of water, with no trace of the British ship or Five other cutters were stated to be ce-operating in the intensive search for the ill-fated steamer and her seamen, and the tragedy has aroused a welling tide of feeling throughout the United States.
"The public is aroused not solely by the fact that the attack was made practically in. violation of the Amer~ can neutrality zone, but also because the jldent brings home the factual closeness of the war to the Informed quarters and the State Department stated today that it could rot as yet be established whether the Coulmore was torpedoed inside or outside the neutrality zone, although Latest reports indicated the former.
All quarters remarked. that this Incident so close to American coasts, trid the seizure of the City of Flint her crew.
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