NAZI BRUTALITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 8

NAZI BRUTALITY.

U.S. SEAMAN’S STORV. LONDON, April 24. Patrick King, a United States seaman, arrived at Stockholm with hundreds of other seaman from 41 ships of all nations which were sunk at Narvik. “I saw a German destroyer machinegunning the survivors of the torpedoed warship Norge,” he said, “as they swam in the icy water yelling for help. “Some British -seamen from merchantmen were imprisoned in a cafe in Narvik. As 1 was coming down the main street two German sentries appeared leading a man in dungarees, whom I recognised as an English seaman whom I knew. “He shouted ; ‘Hey Paddy, they are going to murder me.’ “I replied: ‘I can’t help it, pal, they have got me covered.’ He was being shot because he would not talk.. “Other English seamen were taken from the cafe to watch the execution,” King continued, “with the object of breaking their spirit and making them talk. He was shot behind, tile cafe. The way that youngster died did honour to Britain’s youth. “I left Narvik last Sunday in a seamen’s evacuation train. At one place we walked for five miles through the snow, with women and babies. Six hundred Germans crossed the frontier just ahead of us. They were all naval men from sunken destroyers, but they were given seamen’s duck uniforms to enable them to travel to Germany through Sweden.”