AN INCIDENT RECALLED
• SINKING OF THE CLAN MACLEOD By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Gape Town, March 7." _ Mi . Wordridge, chief officer of tho liner Clan Macfarlane. relates that when he was chief officer of .the Clan Macleod, which was sunk in the Mediterranean early in December .by an enemy _ submarine, she_ surrendered when within a quarter-mile range, but the submarine continued firing. The Clan Macleod launched, her boats, hut two of them were hit by shells and a. dozen men were killed. The submarine's captain said: "We are ho barbarians, or we would fire on you in the boats. Our orders are to kill you all." Mr. Wordridge contrasts the action of this submarine with the chivalry of the Emden, which captured him off Colombo in October, 1914. NEW SUBMARINES!, ' WITH WAVE-MAKING APPARATUS By Telegraph—Press Assooiation-Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, March 7. The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Copenhagen says the new German sub-, marines are fitted with apparatus to make waves a distance from the 'boat so as to conceal her exact position.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 5
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173AN INCIDENT RECALLED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 5
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