BRUTAL TREATMENT
HUN PIRATES AND FRENCH SAILORS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ("Times" and .Sydney "Sun" Services..) ■ ' ' London, May 2a. •The Press Bureau issued the following account-of the sinking of the French trawler Bcrnndcttb. The vessel, was ceeding from Fecamp (28 miles N.N.E. of Havre) to the Newfoundland Fisheries nnd was 00 mil.*.-? oil the nearest land. A. submarine was sighted flying the C!eriiiun ting. She signalled to the crow to leave, and the master ordered them to lower the boats. The crow only just ha* time to get aboard when th# submarine, from a hundred yards distant, fired tlxs iiist shot without warning. The Bernadette sank immediately. The master approached the submarine and asked tor food. This the German ofUcer refused, the submarine racing oil'. Ths boats lost each other iii the darkness. It is understood that twcnty-nin'> of the crew wuvp picked up. Fivo are missing.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 7
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146BRUTAL TREATMENT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 7
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