WARFARE DECRIED
FORMER ENEMIES’ VIEWS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, November 14
A former German naval captain and a former officer of the British Navy, who met on board a U-boat in 1917 and agreed that “war is rotten,” will appear together at a meeting in support of the League of Nations Union next Monday at Reading, They are Commander Normal Lewiss and Captain Ernest Hashagen. Commander Lewiss’ decoy ship was torpedoed by the U-boat, which was commanded by Captain Hashagen, He was picked up by the crew of the submarine, kept on board for 19 days, and treated with courtesy and kind-
ness. When the submarine reached Heligoland the two officers shook hands, before, Commander Lewiss was handed over as a prisoner. They will meet again for the first time since then when Captain Hashagen reaches London on Friday.
•Commander Lewiss will entertain him and will introduce him to the naval officers at Pangbourne Naval College.
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Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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