In order to i ur e victims within range the Germans have devised a method of utilising the generous nature of seafaring men. They collect wreckage and construct large rafts, fitting up dummy figures thereon so as to resemble crews in distress. In some cases they have had ships' boats with figures tied up in them to resemble exhausted men. Then the pirates in their submarines hauled off to a convenient range, submerged, and with torpedoes trained on the dummy boats waited for the first British ship that impulsively rushed to succour the apparently shipwrecked.
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Northern Advocate, 14 November 1917, Page 1
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