THE TORPEDOED INNISCARRA
PIRATE SUNK BY AMERICAN DESTROYER. Washington, May 28. Officio! information states Unit an American destroyer captu.'cd seventeen Gorman submarine) sailors after they had torpedoed the British sieamer Innis-earra.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn? [The steamer Imiiscarra was bound from Fishguard to Cork when she mis torpedoed and sunk. Only five of those on board, including the captain, were saved. Captain Kelly and four others succeeded in getting into a boat. After questioning one seaman, the Germans brutally pitched him back into the boat. Another was taken to tho submarine and given letters which ho was ordered to post to Mr. Lloyd George when he got ashore. The captain of tho Inniscarra was badly injured, and lay on the bottom of the boat. The submarine hailed tho boat and demanded the captain. A scan'an replied, ''The captain's drowned." This was the seaman who was afterwards questioned and pitched back into tho boat.]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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151THE TORPEDOED INNISCARRA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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