ENGLISH NEWS

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13783, 2 June 1915, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS

THE SHEERNESS DISASTER

PRISONER OF WAR SHOT DEAD

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE

STRIKE OF LEICESTER HOSIERY

WORKERS

London, May 31

The verdict at the. inquest on the Princess Irene victims was that death was caused by an explosion from an unknown cause. A German soldier,, t'-yiiu; to escape at ni^ht from the Lei^h prison camp, climbed to the roof of a shed. T3ie sentries three times ordered him to descend, but he refused, and was shot dead. Several thousand hosiery workers in T/'i-.-'sl-pr. mrr-.tly employed on Govovnnvis!-, r<v: !.!•■'( •'. •;, struck for.' .°.: i ? pci- cent advance.

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