TORPEDOED AND SUNK.
MEN WHO WANT TO GO TO SEA NEXT DAY.
LONDON, Dec. 7. "We have more than one captain in our employ who has sunk more than one U-boat," said Mr William Peterson at the meeting of the LondonAmerican Maritime Trading Company. They had lost a goodl man ships and all the others had had a scrap with the enemy and stood up to them. They might have come home with a few holes in their funnel and otherwise knocked about, but they got home.
When they, had a ship torpedoed and sunk the surviving men came to him at the office first thing and said: "When is-the next ship ready p" j Some _of the captains who had lost their ships, said Mr Peterson, had been j forced by the Germans to give their j parole, which means that if they went [ to sea and were captured they would j be shot. * 1 The company were giving them half pay until they got other employment.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 February 1918, Page 3
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