200 PRUSSIANS ABOARD.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 95, 24 April 1917, Page 4

200 PRUSSIANS ABOARD.

HELPLESS, WO C NDED TOMMIES ON DECK.

COWARDLY GERMANS.

INSTANCE OF

BRITISH

HUMANITY

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received April; 23, 10.35 p-m.) ' LONDON, April 23. ■ The La,, France survivors sfcate that 200 Prussian Guaidsmen were aboard. "When the torpedo struck the boat the • Prussians made a maid rush for life • at the boats,' headed b> an officer. A British officer shouted "Go, back!" The Prussian seowled.andsiiid: "You must save -.us!" Ho wa*» told to wait - his turn.. Other Prussian*; dropped? on their'knees and implored pity. ~ Meanwhile the stretcher casts were Vrought on deck. The first boatswere lowered wittiout delay. ;. Many boats were hurr.ving to the assistance of the La Prance. "While the wound-; ed Tommies, many of whom wefe-\ helpless, lay <jn die decks,'the.Prus-' sian morale dropped1. to zero. .Soraev , Prussians made A tntissv: effort -to" get < . Into, a boat." "WhfeH 'lowered hY-over-/-" turned " and the Pnisplnns^ were , thrown into the "-water. They fought each other in order to reach another boat 'containing a number of gravelywotinded British. , One British soldier, with his leg;:' severed, l lifted aim Self up the La , Franco's" staircasel on his hands in order to sfmnion help to aid a Prussia'h,'who was" unable to move owing, to interna"! injuries. '■