HELIGOLAND FIGHT
HOW THE MAINZ WAS BEATEN GUN FIRED UNDER THE WHITE FLAG. (Received September 12, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 11th September. A British stoker petty-officer states in the fight in Heligoland Bight, the first shots fired at the German cruiser Mainz from the British destroyers swept her upper deck. The Germans hoisted the white flag, and two British destroyers went alongside the Mainz, which was now sinking. Then the captain ordered the crew to fire the only gun left. The crew refused, whereupon the captain jumped off the bridge and fired it himself, and then shot at the crew. The commander and some of the signalmen of one destroyer were killed. The Mainz had aboard three British Naval Reserve men, who were serving in a German liner when the war broke out. They stated that when one of two brothers who were stokers in the Mainz was injured by a British shot, the uninjured one endeavoured to carry his brother on deck. A German engineer shot the uninjured brother dead. LONDON, 10th September. Janshen, a Dutchman aboard a Grimsby trawler which a German cruiser sank, has been released owing to his nationality. He declares that the Germans admit that four of their cruisers were sunk in the Heligoland battle.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 12 September 1914, Page 7
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