Show BOAT U-BOAT FIRES ON LIFEBOATS KEY WEST Fla June 4 INS New New evidence of wolf-boat wolf savagery savagery savagery sav sav- agery was unfolded in Key We West st Thursday by six weary survivors survivor s who escaped from their medium m sized American freighter amid a ahall hall hail of ruthless machine gun an anshell and d shell fire Seamen aboard the ship which the navy announced had been sun sunk k in the Caribbean May 12 said laid th the e axis raider opened the attack o othe on n the unarmed merchantman wi with th wanton machine gun and shell fir fire which cut down three of ot the ships ship's officers ers as they sought to reach h lifeboats One seaman who dove overboard overboard overboard over over- board to escape the murderous fire directed at crew members was Wal never seen again and eight other othe r merchant sailors last seen aboard a a. raft have not been heard from since the attack The 17 survivors were landed a at al Buen Ayre a small Dutch Island in the Caribbean near Curacao and six of them were brought to Key West Charles Parrish second assistant assis assis- assistant tant engineer from Washington I D. D C. C said We sighted the submarine astern of us about p p. p m. m an and d we tried to outrun her but it was useless for she overtook us after r about 20 minutes and as she came cam e within distance they opened up with shell fire and their machine gun We did not have a gun o on n board and we started to abandon abando n ship We cut away the lifeboats lifeboat s and rafts and one of the crew made mad e the descent by ladder Two officers were shot from m the ladder by machine gun fire They continued to fire eve even n after we were in the lifeboats an and d another officer was drilled through h dh the head with a a. bullet In another Caribbean sinkin sinking g revealed Th Thursday by the navy th the e entire crew of 35 got away safely and spent 88 hours in lifeboats before be be- fore a naval patrol plane sighted them and directed rescue opera opera- bons |