THE CONVOY DISASTER.
HUNS’ SHAMELESS FEAT. FIRING ON DEFENCELESS MEN. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Norwegian newspaper Tidens Teon, in giving details of the sinking of "the convoy in the North Sea on October 17, says that German cruisers and torpedoers, advancing down each side, swept the convoy with all their guns at a range of less than two hundred yards. Not content with sinking the snips they shellril the lifeboats, every living thing coming in tlieir way being mercilessly slaughtered. . The survivors owed their lives to the rough sea making the boats clilficult to mark. „ . . , After disposing of the British torpedoers, the Germans cruised backwards and forwards along the sinking vessels, pouring in a fresh ram ot shells at one hundred yards range.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4709, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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125THE CONVOY DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4709, 6 November 1917, Page 5
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