Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-21 | Page 4 | Award Britons Victoria Cross

iBOBlTOBS IT01CK Details of Heroic Conduct of Crew of Schooner Are Published. LONDON, Nov. 20 (British Wireless Service). Details are published in the Official Gazette of acts for which naval officers and men were awarded the Victoria Vic-toria Cross during the war and which could not be given out earlier lor obvious reasons. Tho Victoria Cross was awarded To Lieutenant William Kdward Sanders, June 22, 1117. In command of the topsail schooner Prize, of 2 'JO tons, the lieutenant sighted a German submarine April 30, 11117. While tho German approached, a "panic parry" left the ship and the gun crews on the Prize- concealed themselves. When the submarine had approached to within seventy yards of the schooner, tho British Brit-ish guns opened fire. The U-boat sank In four minutes, and three of tho crew-were crew-were captured. Lieutenant Ronald Neil &Huart and Sea- i man William Williams of H. M. S. Par-gust Par-gust were given the Victoria Cross for bravery in sinking an enemy submarine in an action similar to that in which Lieutenant Sanders of the Prize participated. partici-pated. Another caso In which a "panic party" lured a German submarine to approach ap-proach a vessel with disastrous results for tho enemy was that of II. M. S. Ktoek-force, Ktoek-force, In command of Lieutenant Harold Auten. Lieutenant Auten was awarded the Victoria Cross in September, 191 S. The Victoria Cross also will be awarded posthumously to Skipper Crisp of tli smack Nelson, who, ulthough terribly wounded, continued to engage a submarine subma-rine until his ammunition was almost exhausted ex-hausted and his vessel sinking.