"SPURLOS VBRSENKT"
SHIP-DESTROYING ATROCITIES.
(IIECTBII'S mBGRAM.) LONDON, 14th September.
Apparently the Gehnan submarines are striving to enforce the policy advocated by Luxburg to sink vessels without leaving a trace. Tho schooner Jane Williamson was attacked off Cornwall and sunk. Her crew of six took to the boat, which: the. submarine shelled: Three were killed and the remaining three were picked up the following morning, seriously wounded. . In a second case the schooner William was attacked and sunk by a submarine, which then fired shrapnol at the crew in the boat, one man being wounded.
(ADSTRAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLH ASSOCIATION.) AMSTERDAM, 14th September.
A stock of German; bombs was discovered yesterday among cargoes in ships at Narvik. The evident intention was that these ships should be "spurlos versenkt" ("sunk without a, trace").
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 66, 15 September 1917, Page 7
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