GERMAN NAVY IN ACTION.
ATTACK ON DEFENCELESS PEOPLE. TYPICAL HUN CHIME. U'euter's I'elciprani. ) s (Received Nov. 5. 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. The Norwegian newspaper Tidens Tegn, m giving details. of the sinking of the convoy m the North Sea on October 17, says that German cruisers and torpedoev!s. advancing down each side, swept the convoy with nil their guns at a range ( .f less than two hundred yards. Not con let witli sinking the ships, they shelled the lifeboats, every living thing coming m their way being meicilessly slaughtered. Tlie survivors owed their lives to the. rough sea making the boats difficult to mark. After disposing of the British torpedoers the Germans cruised backwards and forward's along the sinking vessels, pouring Lv a fresh vain of shells nt ono hundred yards range.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 4
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