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Show VESSEL IS SUNK WITHOUT WARNING Survivor of the King Haakon Tells How Germans Shot Boat to Pieces. CHRIS'I' I A NI A, Norway, Oct. 20. (Correspondence of the Associated Pre.s. J The Nor we y i.in ne .s papery, commenting comment-ing upon the Luxhuix revelations, give a lis 1, with full particulars in eaeh ease, of fifteen Norwegian hinps whirh htive vanisiu-d without a trace. T'ney supplement supple-ment t)iis with a list of thlrtten Nor-wecuin Nor-wecuin ships wliidi have been sunk since Keuruary 1 on the voyage from Argentina Argen-tina to Europe. There, is jilsu a wtdeiy-! wtdeiy-! expresst-.i .-uspi.-ion that the seven ves-I ves-I sels of fiie Norwegian scaling fleet, which disappeared t-:o:ne time uu wit h their 1 (jrewa of ninety men, were not lost from natural causes. An ofl'i' ial account of the massacre of the crew of the Norwegian vessel Kins Haakon, piven by tin- three survhors, has just been published here. 'The stori-of stori-of Olaf Tiiorbjornsen, the chief witness, is briefly as follows: "The U-boat opened fire without warning warn-ing at thirty yards and swept llm decks of tho King- Haakon clear of men and boats. She then cruised around the ship at a distance of ten yards and sank her by firing two shots into her aniirt-ship. aniirt-ship. where the national colors were painted on the side. The decks were converted into a shambles, covered with dead and dyini men. while a few escaped by throwim themselves overboard. Witness Wit-ness succeeded in keeping the captain and steward, both mortally wounded, afloat on a raft, tukirr-c off his own life belt to support the dyin captain. A shattered boat was picked up. with t wo other survivors and three coipses. Another An-other survivor swam for twelve hours." Twenty men were lost from this ship. |