NORWEGIAN EXPLORER’S PROTEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10116, 25 October 1917, Page 5

NORWEGIAN EXPLORER’S PROTEST.

AGAINST DESTRUCTION OF CONVOY. RETURNS GERMAN DECORATIONS. Received October 25, 10.5 a.m, CHRISTIANIA, Oct. 21. Captain Roald Amundsen, in a letter to tho German Legation returning the German decorations awarded him for his Arctic and Antarctic explorations, explains that his action is by way of a personal protest us a Norwegian sailor against the murders of peaceful Norwegian ..sailors, particularising tho destruction of tho convoy in the North Sea.

FIENDISH GERMAN CRUELTY. LONDON, Oct. 23. According 'to messages Irom Christiania, officers and men rescued from vho Maty Jfuse state that after sinking the destroyers. the Germans fired broadsides at the merchantmen, sweeping away their iq per structures and killing passengers and news. The captain of one merchant vessel says that after a broadside his crew entered the boats, which the Gorman shells had destroyed. killing nine men. The rest returned to the steamer, when a number of shells struck it simultaneously, breaking up tlie vessel and killing ail except the captain, who dived and was picked up later. Similar scenes were visible everywhere. The lifeboats signalled and cried to the Germans, while two women waved white garments from the upper dock of a sinking ship. But all appeals wore in vain. NAVAL ENQUIRY TO BE HELD. (Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON, Oct. 23. In the House of Commons Sir Erie Cleddes (First Lord of the Admiralty) stated that Sir David Beatty would order a courtmartial on the loss, of the torpedo convoy as soon as the survivors were fit !o attend. The naval enquiry mentioned yesterday would also be held immediately, and would (ii-al with the general question of convoying, which the Admiralty was now reviewing owing to the loss of the convoy. Sir ICric G.eddos, replying to a question, stated that the United States was not at war with Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, and there was no rupture with Bulgaria.