Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-25 | Page 1 | Hun U-Boats Sink Ships after Armistice is Signed

II HUN U-BOATS SINK SHIPS AFTER ARMISTICE IS SIGNED I k ill ! J Americans Held on, ' "DeutcMand" 25 Days ! I Tell of Inhumanity. TWO LIEUTENANTS, Attacks Made on Ships After Armistice Was Signed. - LONDON, Nov. 25. Lieutenant Jul- ! ius H. Fulcher of Fricco, N. C, who! with Licutetnant Frank L. Muller of j Oakland, Cal., was taken on board the' German submarine Deutschland from the torpedoed army freight ship Tl-conderoga, Tl-conderoga, September 30, and was! brought to Harwichc yesterday by the U-boat, wac wounded severely in the thigh when the Ticonderoga went down, according to the Harwich cor- i respondent of the Daily Express. He l escaped on a raft and was picked up 1 by the U-boat. Lieutenant Muller was taken aboard by the same boat but Lieutenant Fulcher did not learn, of his presence until some days later.. "They gave me a drink of brandy bran-dy and questioned me about American Am-erican troops and other things," I said Lieutenant Fulcher in an Interview. In-terview. "I wac then taken to the forepeak where I had to sleep with not less than thirty-five German soldiers who lived In this dungeon, j The first bath I had was when a rain squall hit the submarine vhile I was on the deck. "On the eighth day of captivity Germany sent a peace note to the United States and on the eleventh the submarnicc were recalled from the American Amer-ican coast. On the thirtetenth- day we encountered a Norwegian I vessel from New York to Auotra-i Auotra-i lla. She vas captured and sunk after the provisions had been j transferred and the crew turned adrift in a small boat 1,000 miles from land. '"We fired shots at an' English ship two days later but tvo Brlt-' Brlt-' ish cruisers appeared and we submerged sub-merged to a depth of about 150 feet. The cruisers' dropped depth charges and the submarine trembled. trem-bled. "On October 26 when the U-boat ! i vas recalled, I had been on board I 25 days. When I arrived at Kiel j I vas told I would be sent home by , way of Copenhagen but later two I officers came and told me I could I j go to England on one of the sur- j I rendered submarines if I wished. I accepted gladly and found that j the U-boat was the same one which had torpedoed my shh "The Germans treated me very well, but I have come to the con- elusion that if a man can stand j twenty-five days imprisonment on a German U-boat he can stand , anything." Lieutenant Muller was brought back I on the same boat with Lieutenant Fulcher. ,