THE HAMMONIA WRECK.
GERMAN AND SPANISH SURVIVORS. TRIBUTE TO BRITISH SEAMEN. London, Sept. 13. The Lusitania fs avenged German and Spanish women survivors have written to Captain Day (who was taken a prisoner in a submarine during the war) thanking him and adding: “We will always pray for the British mercantile marine “ Later accounts demonstrate Mr. Jupp's conspicuous gallantry. Mr Jupp was the only Englishman aboard the Hammunia. German women paid a tribute with grateful tears. “He helped us by being an Englishman. We do not know what we would have don** without him. He saved tho women and children.” M. Jupp stated that the Spanish women tied four Babies together and threw’ them into the sea in the hope that they would bo saved. All were drowned. “When the Kinfauns Castle was sighted I was so over joyed that 1 started to sing ‘Tipperarv.’ Her crew were magnificent. No lives were lost after her arrival.” Mr. Jupp is a foreman paper maker, a native of Barnsley.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 233, 14 September 1922, Page 6
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169THE HAMMONIA WRECK. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 233, 14 September 1922, Page 6
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