INCREDIBLE SAVAGERY

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 5

INCREDIBLE SAVAGERY

j dlMtr-BOAT COMMCAMDEB. !.' I.EFI BRITISHERS TO DROWN. WHEN HIS OWN CREW WAS RESCUED. '• . . .(deceived 11.45 a.m.)' ,• ' ' ' LONDON, July 14. " Staff-Paymaster Hughes, in. a speech, m London, said that the plans foe attacking Zeebrugge were thought of six ■ ■ months ago. The expedition started • twice, previously, bat had to return. German submarines .to the end of 1915 sank a million. British tons, "while they' sank , six millions in 1917, and during those months of sorrow chips were <*oin;J down like autumn leaves; that was why. the Zeebrugge nest was attacked. '. There were three hundred warships in the Navy proper at the outbreak of tie war; now there were 3,500. A Clyde : shipyard recently launched its forty- : second ■ -warship in the war period. Paymaster Hughes narrated an example of German, brntality. A British' patrol boat in the Atlantic discovered • I a derelict' U-boat, and rescued the crew. ■ Before blowing up the vessel the patrol ? 'commander asked if all were safe. The f; ■ submarine commander replied "Yes," and J called the roll, all answering. When he , • j pushed off, preparatory to dropping* ai,' " depth charge, the commander of the«--■>■' patrol boat heard a tapping, which con-; tinued. Despite repeated assurances that , : . [all were saved, the 'British commander; . ; did not believe the German, but searched '?- the U-boat, and found four British sea-* ; men tied up one of the compartments."' r (A. and JST.Z.) ~ ■ : •. ._ . » .. '