MEETING OF GERMAN MASS LEVY COMMITTEE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 19, 23 January 1917, Page 8

MEETING OF GERMAN MASS LEVY COMMITTEE.

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went down, was start-loci into liopefulness on receipt of :i lit.ior from hor husband in Germany, stating thaii iie was a prisoner there, and that his wifo would bi>- aston.ishod if sho knoiv who v ore pristinr-rs with him. That, however, he vus not allowed to tell. It will be remembered that Wiera vr-cro only one or two survivors from tho Hampshire, who drifted ashore on a raft amongst the rocks on a rugged part of the Scottish co:m, from which perilous position they were rescued. A storm was raging at the Jtime, and it was not sug;4*.-stcd that the cruiser was torpodoed. If, however, the story is true—and the- receipt of tho letter from the prisoner in Germany us vouched for—then the .Hampshire in ust hiiVv* been torpedoed, else how did tho man reacli Germany as a \a ii-oner of war? It must have been a sitKinarinc;- or a German war vessel that r«\s..vod him and others. Tho story is a roj;mrkab!c- one, but the lady xvlio.v.^ husband is reported to be :\ prisoner in Germany, is sure that that part of tho story is correct.