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Show 59 SUBMARINES NOW HANDED OMER BY THE GERMANS LONI 'ON. Nov. '2-2. ( British Wireless Service. ) T wen ly more ( lerma n submarines subma-rines were surrendered to Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt off Harwich this morning. This makes a total of fifty-nine fifty-nine submarines thus far handed over. There would have been twenty-one surrendered sur-rendered today, but one sank during the . night. When the Germans arrived the revolut ionai y element wns noticeable. Some of the officers had replaced Prus- sian easles on their caps with a red 1 badge that recognizes authority of the sailors and soldiers' council. There-seemed There-seemed to be little discipline among them. To the oltieers, one shouted: "No officer no kn isei ." Some of the Germans were anxious to air such Knghsh as they possessed. One German ol'tlcer. inclined to be communicative, communi-cative, attached himself to the correspondent corre-spondent and said he worked in London before the war. He added; "1 had an intimation ( many of us had t that w- should be wanted in the summer of 1:H, so I went back to Ger-' Ger-' many a mon I h or two I efore war was j declared. I was not In the submarine service at tlrst, but volunteered for it and had a fair share of lu-'k. Yon British Brit-ish say it was not fair lighting, but we Germans believe that the end justifies the means. Then you complain that we shoot your men while they are in the water. Why not? The m-'n might be saved and tijrht us another day. We should be fools to let them." Th crew of one submarine, except an officer, were Intoxicated. |