SANK THE LUSITANIA

Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 19

SANK THE LUSITANIA

How did the Lusitania's destroyer really die? This mystery, which it had been, thought was solved, has been made.more confusing than ever by a circumstantial story by a German naval officer, Commander J. Rehder, who has just published in Germany a history of the British Q-ships and their war on the U-boats. The man who sank the Lusitania was Lieutenant-Commander Walth^r Schwieger. There have been three versions of his end: (1) He shot himself in a fit of remorse (this has been completely disproved); (2) he was sunk in a fight between the Qship Stoneffop and ÜBB in the Bay of Biscay on September 17, 1917 (the British Prize Court awarded prize bounty to the Stonecrop for this in Decem-j ber, 1921); and (3) on September 7, 1917, U.BB, with Schwieger in command, | was blown up in a British minefield, within hearing of another.' U-boat in* the Bight of Heligoland. This last has been hitherto the official German version. Now Commander Rehder states that ÜBB was sunk by the Q-ship Glenfoyle off the south-west coast of Ireland on September 17, 1917. No such fight is given in the published records. |