Abandoned to Sharks.
GERMANS WITNESS STIiUCIGILE. London, July 2i7. The steamer Maritson was torpedoed early on July 15, and was sunt almost immediately. The cook, who jumped overboard with a hatch, counted 17 men clinging to the wreckage. At that moment the subnuairine, a largo craft painted jet Mack, came to the surface in the midst of her struggling and drowning victims. An officer stood looking through his binoculars far several ininute6 at the struggling forms in tlhe water. He silently ignored all appears for assisttance, although there were no other vessels in sight, and l the whole of tilie crew of the Mariston could easily have been saved in a few onin - utes.
At this moment one of the drowning men disappeared with a piercing scream, and a few moments later another vanished in tfee same way. The horror of the situation had been enhanced by the arrival of a sdhiool of sharks, and gradually all the brave men of the Mariston, except one, suffered a horrible deatili. The scene was too much even for the submarine commander, for he dosed the rtnaipdoor of the conning tower and submerged' Hiis vessel. Fifteen minutes later the sole survivor of the tragedy was rescujed by a. British imerchatnt vessel.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 September 1917, Page 3
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