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Taihape Daily Times, 31 August 1918, Page 2

U-BOAT CREW GO MAD. FRENZIED SCENE IN SUBMARINE THAT SANK. SUICIDES FROM HORROR Stark horror! That alone will describe the scene in a certain German submarine which went to the bottom after striking a mine. She left Zeebrugge a few days before that nest was sealed by the Brit-' ish block ships, and she was commanded by one of the most successful of the pirates, a man on whom decoration had been showered by the Kaiser since the beginning of the war. An external, explosion shook the submarine. It was not enough to blast her to fragments. It only sen: her staggering downwards stem first, her bows pointing upwards. The electric light failed, and much of her delicate machinery was thrown out gear. After a struggle the engineers put the lighting to rights, but their efforts to bring the vessel on an even keel