RESCUES FROM THE SEA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13636, 17 March 1915, Page 3

RESCUES FROM THE SEA.

ENEMY'S INHUMANITY

WHAT GERMANS HAVE NOT DONE.

LONDON, March 10

The Admiralty announces that since the war his Majesty's ships on every occasion have done their utmost to rescue from t-he sea German officers and men whose vessels have been sunk. More than 1000 lives have thus been saved, often m circumstances of difficulty and danger, although no such treatment has ever been shown to British sailors m similar distress.

"The Germans who have been thus taken prisoners," the official statement goes on to say, "have received the treatment appropriate to. their rank, and such courtesies as the service allows. The Emden's survivors, were accorded the honors of war. The Admiralty, however, does not feel justified m extending honorable treatment to the 29 officers and men rescued from submarine ÜB, which has been operating m Dover Straits and the English Channel for the last few weeks, as there is a strong probability that she has been guilty of attacking arid sinking unarmed merchantmen., and firing torpedoes at ships carrying non-combatants, neutrals, and women. There is grave reason to fear that the Oriole was sunk at the beginning of February with all hands. "There is great difficulty m bringing home particular crimes to an individual submarine. Perhaps the evidence necessary for a conviction will not bo obtained until peace is concluded. In the meantime the persons so charged must be subject to special restrictions, and must not be accorded distinctions due to their rank or allowed to mingle with other war prisoners."