On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 6

On the Sea

A STOKER'S STORY

GERMAN BRUTALITY

(Received 9.55 a.m.) London, September 11. A British stoker petty officer states that the first shots at the Mainz from the British destroyers swept the upper l deck. The Germans hoisted a white flag, and therefore two- British destroyers went alongside. The , Mainz was now sinking. When the captain ordered the cre>w. to fir© the only gun left the crew refused., Thereupon,the captain jumped off the bridge and fired it himself and .then shot at the crew. The commander and some;of the signalmen of the destroyer were killed. The Mainz had aboard three British naval reserve men .who were serving in a German liner when the war broke out. They narrate that when one of two brothers, who were stokers on the Mainz, was injured by a British shot, the uninjured one endeavoured to,carry his brother to the deck, and a German engineer shot the uninjured brother dead. .. • . t <■ . i■. .•; •<<

A COLLIER. CAPTURED

(Reecived 12.20 p.m.)

Kingston, (Jamaica)j Sept, 11

■ A British .warship brought in the Bethania with four hundred prisoners aboard. She is one of the Kaiser Willie)m der Crosse's colliers.