COMMANDER HERSING
TELLS OF HIS EXPLOITS i^yTolcsrapli—Press CopyrijM (Rcc Jul} 1, 5.5 p.m.) . ■!.- . Amsterdam] July .3. ■ A Hungarian newspaper interviewed ' tho German ; submarine,commander Horsing- at Constantinople]; who l stated that he covered' five thousand: inijes in ii 'month;; He' left'^Vilhelnishafen' on 'April-25, and travelled' mostly on.the . surface. ... . Ho never saw a single British warship lip to, Gibraltar, '.wherehe noticed si 'British destroyer. He waited until •nightfall, and then divod and passed, v Oil tho day of his arrival in tho '■ ''Aegean Sea' he sank the Triumph,' and , dived as a British destroyer approached and passed over the submarine. .When 3io encountered the : Majestic he saw ' through the periscope the crew prepar- . iing for . lunch, and' hesitated to disturb . them, but duty triumphing over sentiment, he torpedoed the battleship and dived. Both the Triumph, slid the iMajestio.- were protected by.nets.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 6
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139COMMANDER HERSING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 6
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