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Show BELGIAN PRINCE IS . LOOTED AND SUNK BY SUBMARINE BRIGANDS Stories of All Survivors Agree Upon Brutality of Treatment Received From U-boat Officers and Crew. "THE FIGHTING FLEETS." By RALPH D. PAINE. (Copyright, 1918, by Ralph D. Paine.) (By special arrangement with Honchton Hfflln Co.) INSTALMENT i!6. The Fate of the Belgian Prince. THEN tho submarine came to the surface and the four sailors hoisted hoist-ed their stuff out of the rowboat and were taken aboard. Ten minutes min-utes later the submarine submerged. sub-merged. Then there was a great explosion ex-plosion and the Belgian Prince broke in two and sank. Soon I saw a vessel approaching ap-proaching and she passed me, but turned and came back just in time. I was all in. It was a British patrol steamer, and as soon as I came to I made a full report to her captain of the loss of tho Belgian Prince and the drowning of her crew. There remains to be accounted for an able seaman named George Sllenskl. who was a Russian. His mind was clear and his account coherent, in so far as It related re-lated to his dreadful treatment at the hands of the German commander. Of this ho said: Two Lifeboats Are Deliberately Sunk, A German officer ordered the OWW to give up their life-belts. His men smashed the two lifeboats and took the little boat for thjeir own use. Then the submarine subma-rine ran for half an ,hour. dived, and all our crew were left in the water. Then I swam toward the ship all night, although al-though I had no life-belt or anything to support me. About 5 o'clock in tho morning morn-ing I reached the Belgian Prince mid climbed on board. I stayed there about an hou r and got some d ry clothes and put them on. I saw the submarine come near the ship and three Of four of her men climbed on board. I hid and they did not notice me. They had comn to put bombs in the ship, so I jumped overboard over-board frum the i-oop with a life-belt on. The submarine fired two shells Into the ship to make her hurry up and pink. Then the Germans steamed away. I cltmtied Into our little boat, which had been left adrift, and stayed there until a British patrol ship came along and picked me up. German Cruelty h Woven Into Ballad. Three men saved from the sea ns thee survivors wf re, separately Interrogated by the master of the ship which found them, cmild not posMlbty concoct a gigantic gi-gantic falseshood of thin description. They y-oke the truth, damnatory, lm-pcrlshaTile. lm-pcrlshaTile. and through thrm the souls of their dead com ra des crl ed ou t for retribution. Straight these drowned sfau-men sfau-men wnt 10 Fiddler's Green, where the souls of all good mariner go. and thre they may thuml) their hnrpn and sip their grog and sing the chanty that another Englishman has written for them: "Come all ye jolly mariners and list ye while I tell, Afore we heave the capstan round and meet the channel swell. Of a handy ship, and sailor lads, and women-folk, a score. And gallant gentlemen who sail below tho ocean floor; A tale as new and strange and true as arty historic. Of the German law and courtesle And custom of the sea." Captain of Brussels Condemned to Death. Conspicuous among the names of the seamen who have died for England and the cause of the allies will be that of Captain Charles Fryatt of tho Great Eastern railway's steamer Brussels, which ran on the route between Tilbury and the Hook of Holland. She was captured cap-tured by the Germans and taken Into Zeebrugge on the 23rd of June, llfi. Five day later this official announcement was made public by the same German government which later sanctioned the murder of the crew of the Belgian Prince: OnThursd at Bruges, before the court martial of marine corps, the trial took place of Captain Fryatt of the British steamer Brussels, which was brought In as a prize. The accused wft condemned to death because, although he was not a member of a combatant force, ho made an attempt, on the afternoon of the ftgtfc of March. 1915. to ram the Germr.n submarine U-33 near tho Maas lightship. House of Commons Notes Men's Bravery. The accused, as well as the first officer offi-cer and the chief engineer of the steamer, received at th- time from the British admiralty a gold watch as a reward for his brave conduct cn that occasion, and his action was mentioned with praise in the heuse of commons. On the ocrajdon in question, disregarding disregard-ing th L-boat's Mgn.il to stop and snow his national flaar, he turned at a critical moment at high speed against the submarine, sub-marine, which escaped the steamer by a few meters or ly t ec.iuse of swiftly diving. div-ing. He confessed that in so doing ho had scted In accordance with the Instructions In-structions of t lie ndmlrnRy. The sentence sen-tence was confirmed yesterday afternoon and carried o.u by shooting. This Is one of the many nefarious franc -tlreur proceedings of the British merchant marine against our war vessels, ves-sels, and it has found a belated but merited expiation. On the same Any of the execution of Captain Fryatt the British passenger altar Falaba was torpedoed and sunk without warning. 8he went to the bottom bot-tom In eight minutes and cjarticd with her on hundred and four men. women and children, who were "not members of a combatant force." (TO Be Continued.) |
