THE SINKING OF THE APAPA
ANOTHER DLOT ON GERMANY'S NAME ; QUESTION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT ; ■ London, December 5. '. The Apapa carried 120 passengers ; and a hundred of a crew. She had mails on hoard. The vessel was tor- ■ pedoed wlien nearing home, and commenced to sink directly tho , torpedo > struck. Thero were enough lifeboats : to save all, but the submarine, seeing ; the women and children embarking, ; fired a second torpedo in order to sink : tho Apapa faster. , Over eighty -of .. those on board perished. About IM ; landod at a West Coast port after great : suffering. It is rumoured that tne submarine fired on the women and ; children in tho open boats. . : The drowned apparently include Mr. : W B, Townsend, Attornoy-General of tho Gold Coast, and other well-known AVest African officials. _ Replying: to a question in thel House of Lords, Lord L.ytton denied that the : naval escort was withdrawn when the. f Apapa was nearing tho critical(zone. ; It was not desirablo to publish the ar- ; raneements for the protection of fillip- ■;. ping.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■, j
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 5
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173THE SINKING OF THE APAPA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 5
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