TRAGIC STORY OF HUN CALLOUSNESS.
STRICKEN CREW CLING TO SUBMARINE. CRAFT DIVES AND IfAVES THEM TO DROWN. (Received. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 27. Captain Cargill, master of the Liverpool steamer Belle of France, has arrived Home with a tragic story of German callousness. His ship was torpedoed without warning 21 miles from Alexandria. A lifeboat containing 24 men capsized. The men swam to the submarine, and were allowed to clamber on to tbe decks. Captain Cargill took the other lifeboats, intending to take off the men, but the German commander threatened him with a revolver, and then went off at full speed. Suddenly the craft submerged, leaving the men to drown. Captain Cargill rowed to the spot as speedily as possible, but was only able to save five of the men. A torpedo vessel reached Marseilles, towing a boat belonging to tbe steamer Roubinc, which a submarine torpedoed in the Mediterranean on February 23, Tbe boat contained six survivors and the bodies of two of the Ronbine's seamen, who were killed by the submarine's rifle fire while endeavouring to save themselves in the boat.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1916, Page 6
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