ALMOST INCREDIBLE CRUELTY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 5

ALMOST INCREDIBLE CRUELTY

SUBMARINE OUTRAGE ON THE HIGH SEAS BRUTAL MURDER OF BRITISH SEAMEN (Roc. February 4, 11 p.m.) rrn , , London, February 4. er< * allt Service Review" ouches for the following story:—A large British cargo vessel was attacki y a mf rnlall s »bmarine last December. rh o crew took to the boats. • shelled the boats, killing and wounding several men in the captajn s boat, and throwing the remainder into the water. The submarine hred twenty shells at the mate's boat, but all missed, the occupants meanwhile lying in the bottom of the ooat. Ihe submarine then came ui> and ordered the castaways to reboard their cargo vessel, and covered them_ with rifles while they crossexamined thorn. The mate asked for permission to ,succour tho captain's Cr ?n' was refused. lno Germans looted all the navigation instruments and then ordered the survivors to re-enter the boat. The mato visited the captain's boat, and lound the latter severely wounded, washing about the bottom of the boat. Ihe seamen hung to the gunwale, supporting an apprentice, who, however, was already dead. Tho castaways were many hours in tho boats, without food, and Buffered badly from exposure until a patrol boat rescued thom.--Aus.-N Z Cable Assn.