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HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLES ' GERMANS FIRE ON DROWNING MEN Tho Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner:— ■_'.■■ .-.■!'. London, September 24, 6.25 p.m. Official.—ln reply to the statement made by the German Minister at Copenhagen that German officers did not, as reported from England, fire on swimming German sailors after the Heligoland fight, but that the English themselves fired on German swimmers, and ■tlf.it an English shell was thrown into o. .lifeboat containing German survivors, the Admiralty issues a statement conclusively denying the two first charges. It was regretted that, a bluejacket on, the Goshawk, exaeperated at tho inhumane conduct of a German cruiser vyhich fired on British life-saving parties, threw a. ■ projectile which ; could ■not possibly have exploded into a lifeboat containing Germans. This act could not be defended, but it was done under considerable provocation, and was a .venial offence ■ compared ' with that of a German oniisor which fired many shells at British destroyers' whilst engaged in a humane and chivalrous action. Many British officers and mon saw officers on the Mainz and Konigen Luise fire on their men in the water, presumably because they were of opinion that the men had deserted their posts, prematurely. There are many Germans in our hospitals whose, wounds testify to the accuracy of the German. ; officers' fire. ■ The first list of casualties in the naval fight on September 22 shows that the following officers woro lost:—From " the Aboukirj 23; Cresey, 25; and Hogue,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 7
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246OFFICIAL NEWS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 7
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