GERMAN METHODS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 1

GERMAN METHODS.

A CAPTAIN'S STORY. SHELLED BY ANGRY OFFICERS. " Times " and Sydney " Sun " Services. (Received April 29, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. Captain Southward has returned from Algiers, where he was in hospital for four months recovering from shell-fire wounds. He describes the rinking of the Clan MacLeod in the Mediterranean. After the eighth shot, when the funnel was hit, he realised that ho would be unable to save the isteamor and hoisted signals of surrender and stopped the engines, but the submarine started to shell the bridge, boats, and boats' crews, killing nine men and wounding six, three fatally. Captain Southward was struck by the first shell. He and tho first mate went round the decks but saw nobody alive and left the steamer. Ho was ordered aboard the submarine, which flew the German naval flag, and found the commander and lieutenant exceedingly angry because he had not stopped sooner. "The commander shook his fist in my face. Tho submarine then proceeded to sink the steamer by shell fire. The commander ordered mo back to a boat and told me to inform all captains that they would be fired on if they attempted to escape. We then parted company and I picked up two wounded men and set sail with the cutter and lifeboat with sixty-nine men aboard."