U BOAT CAPTAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1929, Page 1

U BOAT CAPTAIN

MAN WHO SANK 02 BRITISH SHIPS.

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON. Nov. 16

The newspapers to-day publish the photograph of a handsome German naval captain, who has arrived in London from Germany, and who, as commander of Submarine U 62, sank sixty-two vessels, mostly British ships, during the war. He is Captain Hashagen, and he is visiting London at the expres invitation of Commander Lewis, whose mystery ships, the Ql2, Captain Hashagen sank, holding Commander Lewis a prisoner aboard his submarine for sixteen days, during which period lie sank ten more British ships.

Captain Hashagen and Commander Lewis will sit together at a- League of Nations meeting at Reading.

Captain Hashagen told how. when he sank Commander Lewis’s ship, he allowed the crew to leave in boats, but called out to Lewis: “1 am afraid you must consider yourself my prisoner. Will you step aboard, please!” Captain Hashagen added: “We dined together, hut it must have Teen an ordeal for Commander Lewis to be a prisoner on Die submarine for sixteen days while Ave were sinking British shins. T am somewhat nervous about my visit, but 1 hope that the people England will not still re-, gard me as a barbarian.”