REMORSE.
«. According to M. Herve's La Guerre Sociale, after Lieutenant Hersing, in U2l, had sunk the Lusitania, he returned to Heligoland to find eyes averted from him. " Without daring to lift his head he muttered, ' It went against me to act • as I did act, but I could not do otherwise.' He was crying. " He then told how none of his men knew the object of the voyage, and how several times he was on the point of letting them into the secret in the hope of seeing the crew mutiny. . . . He said : ' I tried to avoid witnessing the ghastly scene which followed, and made away from the torpedoed liner at full speed. Then I came to the surface. The sea was crowded with struggling wretches; even at that distance I could hear the shouts of the shipwrecked. I had become a man of atone, mcap&!jifi_ef majaafi or arijriUaa ojx p^uioß^li. l "
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 11
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152REMORSE. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 11
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