MUTINY IN U BOAT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 205, 1 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

MUTINY IN U BOAT.

CONFESSIONS BY MEMBERS OF V PIRATE CREW. Tlu remarkable confessions by members of the crew of a D boat that life was hell and that the crew were mutinous are contained in the story officially published of the sinkingof the Brazilian steamer Rio Branco on May I. The U boat ordered the ship's papers to bo brought to her, and the mate of the RTo Bianco did so in one of the ship's boats. He took an opportunity of having a brief conversation with some of the crew of the German submarine while alongsid? the latter. They told him that the life was n hell and tlie crew were mutinous, but were shot on the slightest pretext I'hev added: "For God's sake when is this going to be over?'' BOYS STRANGE PREMONITION "THE GERMANS ARE KILLING MY DADDY." A curious story o[ a elrld's premonition that harm had befallen his father m the trenches is forwarded to a London paper by a Ramsgate correspond cnt. While the w r fe of Lance-Corporal G. R. Austen was packing a pared for her husband at the front, early in June, their three-year-old boy exclaim wl : "The Germans are killing my daddy, and I want n gun to kill them.'' Ho added: "Don'l send the parcel, mamluv, because daddv is coming home.'' 'Mrs. Austen paid l : ttle alt mlion to the- child, but -be !,:•-- now revived information tln-.f In i husband was wound ed mi the day on which the boy a 4."■! her not to send the parcel. "We owe D.lM'li lo th" .lev-." -->: I n wll-known member ~i" that r.u • ; :i the Hoii-e of Commons one day in debate. From an impecunious borrower in a back corner enme, wjMi a fcol : n« groan, "We do!"