SHOCKING SLAUGHTER
SINKING OF THE NORTH SEA CONVOY SWEPT WITH SHELLS AT SHORT RANGE. (ONIIBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COVTRIGHT ) (REDTER'S TELEGRAM.) • (Received November 5, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 3rd November. The Norwegian newspaper Tidenstegn, giving details of the sinking of the convoy in the North Sea on the 17th October, says: The German cruisers and torpedo boats advancing on each side swept the convoy with. alUguns at a range of less than two hundred yards. Not content with the sinking of ships they shelled the, lifeboats. Every living thing coming- their way was mercilessly slaughtered. The survivors owed their lives to the rough sea making the boatsa difficult mark. After disposing of the British torpedo I boats the Germans cruised backwards and forwards along the sinking vessels, pouring in a fresh rain of shells at a hundred yards' range.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 109, 5 November 1917, Page 8
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