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Show Germans Show No Mercy For I Crews of Neutral Merchantmen I LONDON, Dec. IS. Testimony given at the inquest over the victims of tho German attack on tho British convoy shows that the attack occurred between be-tween 4 and 5 o'clock Wednesday morning and that tho enemy destroyers destroy-ers fired as rapidly as possiblo for a few minutes. A Swedish steamer was torpedoed twice, the second torpedo cutting tho vessel completely in two. Of the crew of twenty hands on board, sixteen were either killed or are missing. miss-ing. 3'o assistince was rendered by the enemy boats, British destroyers came upon the scene and rescued th survivors. sur-vivors. r CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 18. All, of tho crows of the morchantmon in the convoy con-voy attacked in the Nortn sea by the Germans last Wednesday were saved. Tho merchant vessels had time to retire re-tire while tho outnumbered British destroyers de-stroyers and trawlers engaged In a desperate fight with the Germans and tho crews of the merchantmen took to tho boats. One British destroyer, according to reports received here, sank after ten minutes of bravo fighting. The crew of the other destroyer continued to Horvc its guns until disabled. After disposing dis-posing of the convoying vessels, the Germans turned their attention to the mcrchnnlmmen and sank them one by 'HH AMSTERDAM, Dec. -S. Captain jH Heinicke, commanded the German forces which m'ado a raid on tho Eng-lish Eng-lish coast oft tho mouth of tho Tyne last Wednesday morning, according to 'H an official statement received here JH from Berlin. The report says that the Germans "successfully attacked enemy mercantile traffic, including two large iH steamers, off iho Tyne and, close to the jH English coast" The Germans, IU Is added, returned without loss or dam-age... dam-age... H |