"Without Leaving a Trace"
'MOB 10 r-Bi ).v !' DEVILRY. Beceived this day, 12.-50 p.m. London, August 2S. A clear ease of a German submarine attempting to sink a ship "without leaving' a (race' is vealed by the French Government. Tlie steamer LynTliaue_was torpedoed witlioul warning off the Spanish coast. Two whalehnafs and a raft got afloat with tli'* snivivors. The sulntiarine rose and chara'cd one whaler. cutting if in halves. The occupanfs <= t Ihe oth-r boat UiouflfM I'm" was accidental and strove to rcM-ue their comrades, but the sulnnaru«e th<-' rammed and :-e-ashed if. killm.". the captain :n'd a woman passen--o°Theh "(he submarine, ramluied jthe debris in ord,°r to make sure. The submarine next rammed the | raft several times and the IJ-boal 'commander seeing the Lrndmne s second officer swimming by the ship, ran.him down, lh> propeller cutlinii;' hint in nieces. The T'-boal resumed its (ask. smashing the obslinafi" rnfl and killing and mainline' many during the process. Eventually the raft was scattered in nieces and the submarine disappeared. leaving file survivors clinging fo the debris. . Though this attempt to 'sink without leaving a trace" fulled, only eight of the stricken survivors were rescued out of 48.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LDC19180829.2.6.5
Bibliographic details
Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 August 1918, Page 3
Word Count
197"Without Leaving a Trace" Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 August 1918, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Levin Daily Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in