CRESSY IN TIME TO ATTEMPT RETALIATION.
GERMANS JEER AT DROWNING BRITISHERS. London, Sept. 24. Despatches indicate that the Cressy alone saw the submarines in time to attempt to retaliate. An officer said that it was satisfactory to know that the Germans had destroyed only three comparatively obsolete vessels shortly destined to be scrapped. The scratch crews had only been together for six weeks. The hardest thing about the disaster is the fate of the cadets, many of whom were only fifteen years old. They acted as coolly as the old hands. Twenty-four of the men were saved by clinging for hours to a target which floated off the Hogue’s deck. The Titan’s captain, ignoring the risks involved, cruised for hours at the scene and rescued many of the men in an exhausted condition. Some of the German submarines came to the surface, and the crews, from the conning-towers, jeered at the drowning Britishers. Five Germans from the wrecked submarine were saved.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1303, 26 September 1914, Page 3
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161CRESSY IN TIME TO ATTEMPT RETALIATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1303, 26 September 1914, Page 3
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