REVOLTING MURDER OF A WOUNDED SKIPPER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 5

REVOLTING MURDER OF A WOUNDED SKIPPER

SHOT DEAD IN SIGHT OF HIS SON. (Roc. March 7, 11.45 p.m.) London, March 7. The , Central News has ascertained the details of a revolting murder of a Belgian fishing skipper last week. A German submarine sighted the smack and fired without warning) destroying the masts and sails, and wounding the skipper. The skipper refused to but told the crew to save their lives.' Tho submarine approached and ordered the Belgians to put two Germans aboard with bombs. The Germans found the skipper wounded and helpless, and sliot him dead with a revolver in sight of the crew, among whom was the skipper's son. The Belgians were then cast adrift in tho cockleshell boat, but it was picked up after they suffered severe privations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LINER CALGARIAN SUNK

TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST,

London, March 6. i;

The liner Calgarian (17,515 tons') was torpedoed off tho Irish coast. There were six hundred people on board.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FORTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST. LontJonj March 6.

The Admiralty reports that the armed mercantile cruiser Calgarian was torpedoed and sunk on March 1. Two officers and forty-six men were lost.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

[The Calgarian is owned by the Allan .Line S.S. Co., Ltd. She is a new vessel, having been completed in 1914. Her length is 568 feet.]

STEAMER KENTARE-TORPEDOED

London, March 6. Tho steamer Kentaro has been torpedoed. Six of lier crew were rescued. —Router. NORWEGIAN STEAMER SUNK GERMANS REFUSE HELP TO THE GREW. London, March 6. The captain and five of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Havna have landed in Britain. The steamer was torpedoed without warning, and sank in a minute. Twelve of the crew aro missing. The survivors clung to a boat all night in the cold. They saw eight on a raft, but ail died or were washed off. The survivors righted the lifeboat, in which they drifted for fifty hours, when they were rescued by an American destroyer. When the crew were in the water the Germans refused help.—Reuter. <

OUTPUT OF STANDARDISED SHIPS

SEVENTEEN BUILT BY END OF

FEBRUARY. London, March 6.

Sir Chiozza Money, Parliamentary Seoretary to the Ship Controller, stated in the House of Commons that seventeen standardised ships, representing 86,000 tons, had been built to the end of February.—lteuter.

SUICIDE OR MURDER?

DEATH OF A GERMAN GRAND DUKE.

(Rec. March. i\ 8.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, March 6. Tho official explanation of tho_ Grand Duke of Mecklenburg's death is that he committed suicide, owing to the failure of certain negotiations for ridding him of a sentimontal tie for .the purpose of enabling him to marry a German princess. The newspapers comments on the insincority of the explanation. The theory of murder is generally behoved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.