A FRENCH SUBMARINE HERO
EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SELFMARTYRDOM. By telegraph—Press Association—Oo'pyrifht mi ..t. •, Lont,on i December 13. The Daily Chronicle's" Salonika correspondent quotes from trustworthy information a story of tho extraordinary self-martyrdom of a French submarine ofbeer when the Turks desired to exhibit a captured French submarine. As the _ Turkish engineers were not acquainted with its internal secrets, the authorities sent a French officer, who, learning of his mission and the opportunity _of destroying tho submarino, bade his fellow-prisoners good-bye, amid suppressed shouts of "Vive'la Patrie!" While demonstrating the working of tlie vessel to six superior Turkish officers, the _ Frenchman managed to start the engines, sped away, and dived, and was not seen again.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 5
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114A FRENCH SUBMARINE HERO Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 5
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