SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 6

SUBMARINISM.

THE LEfk-SSTEH OUTRAGE.

UEW ZEALANDER'S REM'^RKABLIiI

ESCAPE,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

LGfKior?, Oct. 14

Mr P. Hhlsg, a Now Zonlander, had a reinarkiiMo i>s«ipo wlu-a th(^ Ixsinster was sunk, [(also was paralvscd in tho right arm. YV'hon the first, torpedo exploded n i'nonci pUwvd a lifebelt around Ila-lse'-s nt!ck. V/hen. fchti second torpedo struck both wore flung into the water. lla.lso flo^tnd n considerable timo until ho drifted tow:u-ds a lifefooat which was? <;rowded. JIo. hold on to the side of luo lifeboat for threequarters of an hour with the uninjured iiand until he was exhausted. He was then hauled into the boat by means of ropes around his body. Ho landed unconscious. His friend was drowned.