BEFORE THE SINKING
STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN RANDALL LONDON, 28th March. In the course, of an Atlantic telephone conversation Captain Randall, of the I'm Alone, from the Planter Hotel, New Orleans, told the "Daily Express" : "We knew what the people in old England would think when they heard we had been sunk in the open seas. The crew are a wonderful lot. They're all damned angry at the treatment received. Before the ship was sunk the men shouted—"To hell witli them, captain ; let the blighters sink us. We have got to die some time, and by God, we'll die under the British Flag.' I do not suppose there are any decorations for my crowd, but they won (heir honours. I got mine in the war. The Yankees never gave us anything like as fair a chance as we got in war time." .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 March 1929, Page 7
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