A BARQUE'S ESCAPE.
ENCOUNTER WITH SUBMARINE.
How the Russian barque Marlborough Hill —a vessel well known in the Australian 'trade—encountered a Hun submarine, and tho perilous experience of those on board is told in a letter received in Sydney from Captain A. N. Tornquist. He writes from Liverpool: —" We were very nearly sunk on May 7 by a German submarine, which ordered us to abandon the ship as quickly as possible. A northerly gale was blowing at the time, and the sea ran very high. I was compelled to try to get tlio lifeboats out, but tho high sea. and the rolling of tho ship caused them to fill with water; the davits were broken and the boats capsized, and the three men in each boat fell into the water. We were able to get all but one, a man named Waldemar Mattscn, from Mariehann. I am sorry about him, for ho was a very good man. "I signalled to the submarine as well as I could, asking that ho should sovo our lives, as 'we had no more boats. I do not know why he let us go, but after a while he hoisted signals, saying, ' Dismissed,' and went full speed northwards. He was very near to us, but never shouted a word; and all tho time that big ugly gun was directed against us, and I must say it was rot very pleasant to have this so near. 1 ' •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 1
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