NAZI SAVAGERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 6

NAZI SAVAGERY

ATTACK ON DUTCH TRAWLER FRIENDLY WAVE ANSWERED WITH BOMBS. STORY TOLD BY SURVIVOR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. March 31. One of the eight members of the crew of the Dutch trawler Protinus, to whot© Mr Churchill referred in his speech, told his story in a hospital on the Scottish East Coast. "We were often sighted by British planes." he said. "We would wave, and the pilots would wave back. We waved when a Nazi plane appeared. They answered with a shower of bombs, one of which struck the bridge and killed the captain and first mate. The Nazis machine-gunned us. the trawler sank and we were left drifting in a lifeboat, with no provisions and salty drinking water. We were adrift for six days before the British submarine Unity arrived. Two of our shipmates died before then.” BITTERNESS IN HOLLAND MORE ATTACKS ON TRAWLERS. (Received This Dav. 12.45 p.m.l AMSTERDAM. March 31. Mr Churchill’s speech shares the newspapers’ front pages with harrowing accounts of the ordeal suffered by the crew of the Protinus. which lias sent a wave of bitterness across Holland. It is learned that the Nazis attacked two further Dutch trawlers.