HELIGOLAND FIGHT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

HELIGOLAND FIGHT.

GERMAN MISKEPItLSENTATION

TAIION

i'lio Secretary oi tiie Admiralty lias issUni a i-fjily io a siau.nie*nt mado l>iiciy iiy tin. (iei'iiuui .Minister at Copc>nlu luoeUect lun I uumiui oineorg mu not, as was reported troiu Britain, lire on swimming Gorman sailor alter tlio Heligoland Unt that tli« British themselves filed on tho German swinimers, and lh..i a British ohell mis tliroivn into a lilcboat containing Geinian survivors lroin tuqiedo boat \ IS7, tuiign, happily, it did not explode. The substance ol the lej y is aa lollows: — A.s t.io Oilman destroyer Visi was sulking, and while the IJntish were on tho i way L<> rescue survivors, one oi her ollieeis hud an aiter-gun, and hit one our bli'p*. 1 gun v\e siieuced. .Meantime ;k Ciei uiau ci uiser appeared oil tho scene and ojieiied lire on the rescuers. A Uracil biuejacket, cxasjie'rated at these German tactics, threw a projectile , into oil- 1 el our boats which was idled | with German wounded. This shell could | not have exploded. I hia action ie admitted t u bo indelensible. Our rescue | boats had to be temporarily abandoned 1 because of th« heavy tiring. Alter the cruiser iiad steamed oil. o"e of our nubmarines returned to the boats, took off our ohicers and men, and lott the German wounded with two of their officers to navigate the boats to Heligoland, 'lhcso boai« were provisioned by us for the trip and the German officers given a compass and their course home. Everything possible was don e by our owu oltioers and men for the enemy's wound- , ed, even to the tearing u pof personal I clothing for bandages. We have incon- | testable proof that officers of the Mainz and Konigen Luibo fired on their own men as they plunged overboard and swani away from their sinking ships. Wo were able to save 300 of the Mainz's officers and men.