THE U-BOAT WAR
GERMAN COMMANDER INTERVIEWED SIDELIGHTS ON ENEMY SEA PIRACY By Aflsociation-Copyrijht (Rec. April 20, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 12 (delayed). The Chicago "Tribune's" Berlin correspondent interviewed Captain' Bartenbacht, ex-commander of the U-boat bases in Flanders, who said that\ Captain Schwciger sank the Lusitania and Captain Berger the Laconia. Both theso olfiesrs were killed later when their submarines were destroyed. The U-boats operating oil' the American coast, he said,'were not Accompanied by a mother ship, nor did tliey receiveaid from tlio American shores. For one U-boat sunk by depth charges, three were sunk by anchored mines, Tho Brit'i»'!i raids on Ostend and • Zeebrugge did not block the channels for the U-boats. It was nn anchored mine, added Bartenbacht, that sank tho Hampshire vitli Lord Kitchener on board.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 176, 21 April 1919, Page 5
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131THE U-BOAT WAR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 176, 21 April 1919, Page 5
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