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Show Deliberate Sinking of Dutch Ship By U-Boat Charged by Survivor trawler. The total number lost or j missing was not known. - LONDON, Nov. 24 (INS)-With j one survivor claiming that the vessel ves-sel had been deliberately sunk by i a German U-boat despite her neutral neu-tral registry and mission, five sailors sail-ors of the Dutch cargo steamer Sliedrecht were safe on British soil today. The five men were landed by a trawler at an unnamed northwestern northwest-ern English port last night after I drifting for 7 days in an open boat. The survivors said that the captain cap-tain of the Sliedrecht pleaded with the U-boat captain for consideration considera-tion on the grounds the vessel was Dutch and hound for a neutral I port, but -that the submarine com-, com-, mander sank her anyway and de- clined to take the crew aboard his own craft. According to the survivor, the Sliedrecht was stopped by a German Ger-man U-boat. The submarine's captain cap-tain inspected the Dutch steamer's papers, then announced that he would sink the vessel. The captain cap-tain pleaded that his ship was a neutral vessel bound for a neutral port, the survivor declared, whereupon where-upon the U-boat commander reiterated reit-erated the necessity of sinking the ship. The survivor declared the U-boat U-boat captain declined to take the Sliedrecht s crew aboard for transfer trans-fer to another ship. Some time after the sinking, the five men were picked up by a |