DELIBERATELY PERPETRATED.

Northern Advocate, 30 June 1917, Page 3

DELIBERATELY PERPETRATED.

U BOAT BARBARITY.

(Reuter Cable). (Press Assn.—Reed. 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 29. The Elder Dempster's steamer Addah, was submarined without warning on June 15. After the vessel had been hit a submarine, hitherto unseen, emerged and fired* while the boats were being lowered. She hit the Addah oeven times. The submarine then came alongside the chief officer's boat before the ship sank, put one of its officers and four men aboard, and proceeded to board the Addah. After a couple of minutes the boarding party returned to the submarine and told the chief officer's Boat to clear out. • Meanwhile the master's boat, which was already badly smashed by a subN marine shell, was thirty or forty yards N distant. The submarine re-opened fire with shrapnel on the master's boat, killed eight men, and tore the boat's etern. right off. The submarine continued shrapnelling the swimming men after the boat had gone down. After the submarine commander had done his - utmost to everybody in the master's boat, he fired eight shrapnel shots at the chief officers boat. Fortunately nobody was killed, but several were slightly wounded and the "boat badly damaged. The commander waved to the chief officer to go and pick up the master and others who were still swimming, and then made off. A French patrol steamer picked up theae victims of barbarism.