BRANDED ON SUBMARINE

Evening Star, Issue 16994, 17 March 1919, Page 7

BRANDED ON SUBMARINE

ANOTHER GERMAN OUTRAGE. REFUSiEID TO CURSE ENGLAND. Another infamous crime committed by the commander of a German submarine has been disclosed on Tyneside, and the story of the victim has caused widespread indignation. Burton Maybe nr v, a seagoing fireman, who has obtained work lately as a laborer at a shipyard, has on each cheek, and extending nine inches down bo his shoulders, tattoo marks in the form of a snake's head, and this fiendish work was dene while he was on a German submarine wliich torpedoed hie ship. Mayberry is a well-built rellow, and 40 years of age, and he tells a thrilling story of the enemy’s vengeance. “In April, 1917,” he said, “I was one of the crew of a vessel bound from Southampton to New York. When about six days cut my ship was torpedoed by a large submarine at 4 o’clock in the tnurninar. We took to the boats, and one in which 1 was, with 19 other men, was ordered to approach the submarine. When alougsidc the subraariue the commander, a man of powerful build, about 36 years old, ordered us on beard. I was the first to reach the dec'!., and the commander, declaring that England was the cause of the war, said with a grin; “ IT! make an example of you. I will make you drink your own blood. He then ordered me to get down on the deck and curse England. I refused. Two German seamen then seized me, and secured my hands behind by back by means of a bar screwed up at both ends. The commander told me ho would put something on my face that would devour me if I went to sea again. He then went below and returned again with a box, and when it was opened T saw it contained an eleitiic tattooing needle. “The operation of tattooing.” adds the victim, “ lasted half an hour. Two German sailors did 1 it raider orders, but I think they did it unwillingly. I was sick and faint, and was bundled back into the boat, which was turned adnft.” Mayberry further says they had a little tobacco in the boat, but no food, and three days elapsed before they were picked up by a fishing vessel. Through exposure one of the castaways succumbed.