SUBMARINE PIRACY.
STATEMENT BY A GERMAN.
HAMPSHIRE SUNK BY MINE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Ke:d. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. April 19.
The Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Tribune interviewed Captain Bartenbact, who was commander of the German submarine bases in Flanders. He said Captain Schweiger sank the Lusitania, and Captain Berger sank the Laconia. Both wore killed when their submarines were destroyed. Submarines operating off the American coast were not accompanied by a mother ship, neither did they receive aid from American shores. For one submarine sunk by depth bombs three were sunk by anchored mines. The British raids on Ostend and Zcebrugge had not blocked the channels for submarines. It was an anchored mine that sank H.M.S. Hampshire, on which Earl Kitchener was lost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 5
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