SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

STEAMER SUNK WITHOUT WARNING. DEFENCELESS MEN FIRED ON. SHRAPNELLING MEN IN THE WATER. HUNS ’ LATEST FIENDISHNESS. Received 5.50 a.m. LONDON, June 29. The Eldcr-Dcmpter Company’s steamre Addah was submarined without warning on June 15. After the vessel was hit, the submarine, hitherto unseen, emerged and fired while the boats were being lowered. The submarine hit the Addah seven times, and then came alongside the chief officer’s boat before the ship sunk, and put one of its officers and four men aboard. They then proceeded to board the Addah, but after a couple of minutes ■Returned' and told the chief officer’s boat to clear out. Meamvhile the master’s boat, wffiich w r as badly damagedby the submarine’s shells, w*as thirty to forty yards distant. The submarine, re-opened fire and shrapnelled the master’s boat, killing eight and tearing the boat’s stern right off. The" submarine shrapnelling the swimming men after the boat sank. The submarine’s commander, thinking he had finished everybody in the master’s boat, fired eight shrapnel shells at the chief officer’s boat, but fortunately nobody was killed, though several* were slightly wounded and the boat badly damaged. The commander waved to the chief officer to go and pick up the master and other swimmers, and then made off. A French patrol steamer picked up those victims of Hun barbarity.