CAPTURE OF SUBMARINES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1916, Page 7

CAPTURE OF SUBMARINES.

GERMAN SLAUGHTER AND SUICIDE. Dr. C. M. Inglis, a Montreal physician, declared on his arrival at New York on February II on the liner Cameronia, that some German submarine, crews, rather than submit to capture by the British, committed suicide. Proof of this he saw with his own eyes when a large submarine was towed into the naval base at Dover and opened. He was permitted to descend into the vessel in company with a British naval officer. "The first thing we saw was the crew of eight or ten men lying on the floor in the operating room," -said Mr. Inglis. "Beside them, wearing the uniform of a German officer, was another man with an empty automatic pistol in his hand. A bullet through his head had ended his life.

"We concluded that the officer was the commander of the submarine, and that when he found capture inevitable, he summoned the crew to his side and shot them, turning the revolver on himself when they had dropped. He was too proud to fall a prisoner, and my naval officer friend told me the British made similar discoveries on other un-der-sea craft caught in their nets."

Dr. Inglis said the British had captured more than seventeen of Germany's liirgcst submarines within the last three months, bringing the total submarines captured up to sixty-nine. Glass-bottom boats are being used successfully in locating under-water vessels.