WAR MEMORIES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1930, Page 5

WAR MEMORIES

A GEIBL'AN VIEW

OF SUBMARINE, ACTIVITIES,

(United Press Association—By Electric lelegrapli—Copyright;.

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Morcli 15

Captain Gustave Luppe, a handsome retired German naval captain, in the earjy forties, now associiued with the German cinema, industry, succeeded in re-awa.kening war memories in a guou many quarters by striking U-uoat articles in the “Deilv hLpross.” Luppe, undoubtedly a fervid war patriot, views the ocean exploits of Imperial Germany from an angle perhaps unwelcome- to British opinion. He tells how a German submarine travelled to America in war time and the commander, dressed in an Imperial uniform, went ashore and left his card with the port authorities. When he returned lie resumed his working sweater and readied Germany safely, covering well over 70(10 miles without refuelling or reprovisioning. That, writes Luppe, was a great advertisement. It was intended as such, but the thing winch aroused the ire of legions of correspondents is the viewpoint of the Lusitania. Luppe agrees that the sinking will remain for future centuries as an historic event. He tells of the reception given to the commander of U. 20 (Captain Scliwiegar) when back in Germany a few days afterwards.

“Shame,” said Admiral Von Muller, chief of the Naval Cabinet, “I have nothing but contempt for you”; yet shortly afterwards his opinion changed, and ho was decorated with the Order of Merit and became a national hero. He adds, that ho knows the heated feelings in England over the Lusitania,, but there were heated feelings in Germany about the Allied acts. “As a German Imperialist, I.see n‘o reason why the- Lusitania should not have been torpedoed. She was a British armer cruiser carrying ammunition and naval men. Tn fact, she was a warship. If innocents were sacrificed wo simply deplore the faeUthat they were allowed to be aboard.”