LUSITANIA AVENGED.
TRIBUTES TO BRITISH CAPTAIN. BY GERMAN AND SPANISH WOMEN. LONDON, Sept. 13. The Lusitania ip avenged. Oerman and Spanish women survivors of the Ham monia have written to Captain Day, of tin resetting ship Kinfanns Castle (who was taken prisoner in a sttbnitirine during the war) thanking him and .adding: “We will always pray for the’ British tan tile nut fine.” Later accounts demonstrate Jnlih’s con spicnons gallantry. The German women paid him tribute with grateful tears: “lie liolped ns liv being an Englishman. We do not know what we would have done without him. lie saved the women arid children.’’
Jnbl> stated that the Spanish women tied four babies together and threw them into iho sea in the hope that they would be saved. All were drowned. “When the Kinfanns Castle was sighted 1 was so overjoyed that I started to sing ‘Tipiterary.' Hor crew were magnificent. No lives were lost after her arrival.”
Jnbb is a foreman paper maker arid a native of Barnsbv. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2481, 16 September 1922, Page 4
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172LUSITANIA AVENGED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2481, 16 September 1922, Page 4
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