ON THE SEA.
THE CLAN McLEOD. CAPTAIN'S NARRATIVE Times and Sydney Sun (Service:. London, April 23. Captain Southward has returned from Algiers, where he was in hospital for four months recovering from sliollfire wound i. He describes the sinking of the Clun ilcLeod. After the eighth r.liot the funnel was hit. and he realised that he would be unable to save the steamer, so he hoisted signals of surrender and slopped the engine, but the submarine started to shell die bridge, boat:; aud boats' crews, killing nine men arid wounding three fatally. Captain Southward was struck by the first shell. He and the first mate vent round the decks and saw that nobody alive wa-5 left on the steamer, ilc was ordered on board the submarine, which flew the German naval flag. He fonid the commander, a lieutenant, furiously angry because he did not stop sooner. The" commander shook his fist in liis face.
The submarine then proceeded to sink the steamer by shell fire. The commander ordered him back to his boat, and told him to inform all taptains that they would be fired on if they attempted "to escape. They then parted company, and Captain Southward picked up tv/o wounded men and set sail for Malta with the cutter and lifeboat and 09 men on board.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1916, Page 8
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218ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1916, Page 8
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