GERMANS LAUGH' AT STRICKEN CREW.
FORTY HOURS IN OPEN BOATS
Received 11.4 p.m., May 5. • : ; LONDON. May 5.. The" survivors of the trawler were all landed at Aberdeen after being, forty hours; Nadriffc, fopdless • and -waterless. They did riot receive a minute's grace. ■The.\Germans gred shrannel at the vessel ifntil she sank. The second shot wounded the captain arid another lulled him while crawling on the deck. The cook was killed while lowering a boar. AH the survivors were wounded with one exception. ■ • The crew of the submarine laughed .at 'the efforts .of the Britishers to escape. . , .-:.■■.','
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20347, 6 May 1915, Page 5
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