U-BOAT CAPTAIN CHEERED
BRITISH MOTHER’S PATHETIC CRY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 19. Following the fine welcome given Captain Hashagen, who is being entertained in London by Commander Lewis, one of the victims of Captain Hashagen’s submarine exploits, this cry from “A Liverpool Mother” is featured by the Daily Express: — “I try to be fair, for German mothers suffered just as I did. My two younger sons were drowned at sea six months apart. They were on merchant ships sunk by submarines without a single chance. My eldest boy was killed in France, “I now read that a German submarine officer is having a wonderful time in London. The newspapers say he ’’s a bravo man, as he must have been, but my sons were brave too, They were all I had in the world. I hate war and I hope the Germans will be friends of the English, but all I know is that my sons were drowned without a chance. Some officer like Hashagen watched them drown.
“It makes us seem that we were fools to give our sons just to fight against fine fellows who can come over afterwards and be cheered.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1929, Page 17
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195U-BOAT CAPTAIN CHEERED Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1929, Page 17
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