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Show Drunken Germans Tear Down Colors and Stamp on Them. BEAT UP FISHERMEN Submarine Crew Act Like Wild Men Let Loose. NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 13. An American flag, torn from the masthead mast-head of the little schooner Lena May, sunk by a German submarine off thC New England coast Saturday, was taken tak-en aboard the enemy craft by a German Ger-man officer who wrapped it around his neck and gavo a grotesque exhibition of dancing, while his men, each armed with a revolver looked on and cheered. cheer-ed. This was the story told here today to-day by survivors of tho vessel. The fishermen had been ordered aboard the U-boat where ten stood against the conning tower to bo photographed. As they, were being lined up for'tho picture-they were jeered 'by- tho- U-boat U-boat crew and knocked about when they failed to move as rapidly as the commander ordered. Tho mate of the Lena May declared that the Germans Ger-mans were drunk. "At least they were half shot," ho said, "You would havo thought that, too, had you seen the dance of the German officer with the Stars and Stripes draped about his shoulders and heard the cheering as the flag finally was flung down and stamped on amid shrieks from our captors. And you would have thought again they were drunk when, finding a side of fresh beef In our gallery, they set up a roar that resembled that which comes from a crowd at a ball game. The way they cheered made me think they were half starved." A member of the submarine crew who spoke English rather brokenly, was asked why thoy wanted a photograph- "That goes back to Germany," he replied, "to show what wo do over here. We have quite a lot of them. They look good in Berlin." Men Given Outrageous Treatment. All of the men from the Lena May and the Earl and Nettie, another fisherman fish-erman sent down by gunfire, said they received outrageous treatment at tho hands of the Germans. Rising to tho surface in the midst ot the fleet the submarine commander found more vessels than he could sink Immediately. Immediate-ly. They were told to stand by and await destruction. In the desire to obtain food and clothing, tho commander set out in a dory and to save his own men from rowing Captain Frank Lynch of tho Lena May and two other fishermen were required to man tho boats. Thoy wero ordered rcpeately to hurry. |