REVOLTING GERMAN CRIME.
Melbourne. Captain Pearse, Red Cross Commissioner, states that while the German vessel Turritella. was mine-lay-ing off Perim. a British gunboat appeared. The Germans left in small boats, and blew up the Turritella with the Chinese crew still in the stokehold and the engine-room. The gunboat' captured the Germans, who were recently tried for murder in Bombay. (The Turritella, a merchant ship of 5528 tons, was captured by the German raided "Wolff twelve months ago, equipped as an auxiliary raider, and re-named the litis.)
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Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1918, Page 3
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86REVOLTING GERMAN CRIME. Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1918, Page 3
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