SANK 204 SHIPS
GERMAN SUBMARINE ACE'S RECORD. Admiral Lothar von Arnhuld de la Pericre (the German submarine ace with the French name), who was killed in an accident, during the last war sank 204 ships that cost Britain £16,000.000 to build. The admiral came to South Africa on a holiday cruise over two years ago. He was friendly, gentle in voice and manner. In submarine U 35 De la Periere carried out war's brutality as gallantly as' he could. Though U 35 preyed fearfully on British shipping in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the British found De la Pericre a chivalrous enemy. His name was never put on the black list of undersea murderers. His family fled from France to Germany during Huguenot persecutions. That explains his name.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 2
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