SANK 3 SUBMARINES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 12

SANK 3 SUBMARINES

WAR RECORD QUOTED. LONDON, March 1. The war record of a retired' naval officer, including the sinking of three submarines, was quoted at Poole, Dorset, where he was fined' £5O, with £3/18/- costs, for being und'er the influence of drink while in charge of a car.

He is Cmdr. Charles Euman, harbourmaster, of Poole, whose driving licence was suspended' for two years. Mr C. W. Dickinson, his solicitor, said: “If this man owes 1 a debt to society, it is clear that society owes a great debt to him.” He gave the following details of Cmdr. Euman’s career:

In action on Aug. 12, 1914, in German New Guinea, when he was a member of a landing party; In tho battle cruiser Australia at the battle of the Falkland. Islands; Commanded four or five “Q” ships —“that most dangerous of all services” —in the North Sea, sinking three German submarines;

Member of the landing party in the Zeebrugge Mole raid.'; Escaped from a German prison camp and rejoined the Navy; Four times thanked by. the Admiralty; Specially chosen after the war to command the British flotilla on the Rhine; and Sent, to Chanak when trouble, arose in Turkey, becoming liaison officer between the Navy, Army and Ah Force.

Supt. Deacon said that in 1931 Euman was fined £lO for a similar offence.

“With the exception, of this one conviction he has borne a good' character,” added the officer.