A South African merchant told a London pressman recently that a. few weeks ago lie met at Capetown a Scandinavian soaman who had been for a number of years in the German naval semoe. This man claimed to have been on ■ a U-boat that torpedoed the Hampshire. "We made no attempt to rescue any of the people of the Hampshire,'"'j he said. "Jt would havo been utterly impossible, besides exposing our craft, which made the attempt at enormous r.isk owing to the high 6ea which was running. As regards thfo story about Lord Kitchener's captivity in Germany, the sailor said that its currency was deliberately encouraged by the German secret police, who assiduously spread it, the reason ' hcing that the dread of British air reprisals was very real in all parts of the. country.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16430, 25 January 1919, Page 3
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134Untitled Press, Volume LV, Issue 16430, 25 January 1919, Page 3
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