Show Boat V-Boat Sunk By Ship Under u. u Us U.s. S. S Colors Rowboat With Survivors Run Down n But Two Men sIen i Escape Death by ly Miracle l i I Berlin Nov 4 The The German admiralty ad ad- has furnished to the Associated Press correspondent the details of ot what Is characterised as a a. second I I case in which a British patrol ship I rl flying ing American colors color it I Is declared I after destroying ing submarine U 41 tIe dc- i ran down a r rowboat who it t with with I Ithe the only or two survivors o of the undersea under under- 1 sea sen boat In nn an endeavor to remove tho only witnesses and anti has since prevented I tho the Intended victims who were almost miraculously saved from I In Ing the news to their theil own government Tho The incident according to the admiralty admiralty ad- ad occurred September 24 4 1915 Land ancl has only Just been learned of oC through an Invalided in prisoner pr transferred transferred trans trans- I erred to Switzerland The rho submarine I according to tho the admiralty account had halted In the neighborhood of ot tho the I Islands for COt e examination of or a ci steamer under tho the American flag tIng ap apparently ap- ap an innocent merchantman I ap-I The r ostensibly prepared to low lower r a n boat but when tho the submarine I had approached to within yards the tho supposed merchantman suddenly I opened concealed ports and began firIng firing fir fir- In Ing from two cannon and arid also with fir I rifles the American flag flying tIring the whole time tUne the tho account sa says s The submarine Irreparably damaged I went under but was able ablo to come to tho surface later for an instant and I I Lieutenant Crompton severely wounded wound wound- ed cd and Pett Petty Officer Godau managed to crawl out through an open hatch before before be be- fore tore the submarine submarino sank ank forever The sole survivors ultimate ultimately managed man nina aged to swim to an empty empt boat Tho 5 steamer eamer observing tn this according Recording to to the admiralty details headed full CuB speed the forthe boat not to save but to ram iam i it J placing a lookout In the steamers steamer's I bow to facilitate accurate steering The Germans nt at the he last moment sprang from Crom the boat and clun clung to tho the wr wred- wred k- k I age of or It for Cor a half haIr hour when the II steamer finally picked them up Th The wounded lieutenant Crompton and his comrade comrado were wore left leCt without the slightest medical attention In a small mall cage cale on tho the steamers steamer's deck her arrival at nt Falmouth the following day la It Is declared althou although h tho lieutenant lieuten ant had hind a double fracture of ot the Jawbone jawbone Jaw jaw- bone a broad wound across the nose noso and cheek wounds in the lilt left temple and on the finger and an nit eye t shot out It was waR not until September 29 W that tho the lieutenant was as transferred rl to lo a shore hospital clad at nt the tue time tune only in his hits underclothing ll heln being transferred on ott November C G to the military prison in York castle whence the officer whose wounds CIO cro still 1111 open and who vho was I threatened with the th loss of or tho other eye was wai sent In mill mid to D C j I I fi fryn yn Wales the account states i iAn An admiralty officer recalling the I newspaper reports of some time ago aso that the British government go having been forced by German retaliatory retaliator measures to abandon drastic treatment of oC captives front from submarines had given hon orders to take talce no submarine prisoners but to send them to the bottom with their vessels declared to the correspondent corre corre- this case with that of oC t e should be considered as furnishing furnishing fur fur- all necessary proof that the un- un denied story re regarding tho the government go I order was true |