"WAR IS ROTTEN"
BOTH SIDES AGREED
U-BOAT CAPTAIN IN ENGLAND
British Official Wireless. '' BUGBY, 13th November. A German ex-naval captain and a former officer of the British Navy who met on board a U-boat in 1917 and j agreed that "war is rotten," will apjpear together at a meeting in support of the League of Nations Union next Monday at Beading. They are Commander Norman Lewiss and Captain Ernst Hashagen. Commander Lewiss 's decoy, ship was torpedoed by a U-boat commanded by Captain Haslftgen. He was picked up by the submarine, kept on board for 19 days, and treated with .courtesy and kindness. When the Bubmarine reached Heligoland the two officers shook hands before Commander Lewiss was handed over as a prisoner. They will meet again for the first time since then, when Captain Hashagen reaches London on Friday. Commander Lewiss will entertain him and introduce him to naval officers at Pan°bourne Naval College.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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