THE ELBING AND FRAUENLOB.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14195, 6 June 1916, Page 5

THE ELBING AND FRAUENLOB.

INTERVIEWS WITH SURVIVORS

AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERI-

ENCE

Amsterdam,- June 4

The Elbing's captain rtiused to bo. interviewed. He merely remarked that the battle was the most terrible lie ever dreamed of.

The rescuing skipper declared that it was unforgettable, and a, stupendously awful sight like an earthquake at sea. Both sides 'fought with the utmost gallantry.

The ships sank under terrible fire, the heroic crews waving flags and singing their national anthems

Eleven who wore rescued from the Frauonlob have arrived at the Hook of Holland. They state that tho Frauenlob was engaged from 7to 10.30. Then she vas engaged with great violence till midnight, and was torpedoed in the engine-room an hour later.

Nineteen reached a raft, and the remninder 'were drowned. Nine died on the raft.

■CABLE, NEWS.

[Press Association —Coj?rßiGHT.]