BLACK MURDER.
AN UNPARABLE LED CRTME. LONDON, August 4. A ennui of unparollel ferocity is rovealed in the murder of thirty-eight of the < row of tho- Belgian Prince. Three . survivors, aftfer fearful sufferings have landed, When 200 miles from land on Tuesday those on the Belgian Prince saw a torpedo approaching. When it exploded the vessel' took a hoavy list and the crow took to (he boats. The submarine approached' and destroyed the wireless installation by shell-fire. She ordered the boats alongside and'took Captain Hassan Into the submarine and forty-one others were mustered on the submarine’s deck,. @ The Germans took tho lifebelts from all except eight and the -outer clothing from all. They also smashed the boat with axes and took the oars below. The submarine’s crew then closed the hatches leaving the crew of the Belgian Prince on dock. When the submarine had . gone two miles the cry was raised that she was sinking . Many jumped overboard. The others wore immediately drowned as the submarine submerged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1917, Page 2
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