Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 2 | Merchant Ship Sinks U-Boat

IMEMAOT SIP . SINKS U-BOAT AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 24. A German U-boat was sunk and Its nine survivors were captured near the French coast by an American liner on March 10, according to W. S. Ham-bling, Ham-bling, who landed here today on a French liner. The prisoners were the first members of a submarine crow captured by an American liner during the war. The U-boat's commander saved himself from capture or death by drowning by slaying himself with his automatic gun as his vessel sank. W. S. Hambling, who is connected with tho ordnance department of the American army, gave the following description de-scription of the sinking of the submarine subma-rine and capture of nine of her men, which had been imparted to him bv mon who were on tho victorious liner at the time: I "I personally saw tho nine prison-m prison-m l era marched down the gangplank at ' the French port. I heard that when tho liner was two days out of the port it had a running fight with a German U-boat In which the submarine was sunk and the nine prisoners were the on,Iy survivors picked up. When the submarine captain saw that his boat was about to be lost he shot himself ; dead." Tho vessel which destroyed the submarine sub-marine was formerly one of tho American-Hawaiian lino fleet She is now , one of the vast fleet controlled by the American shipping board. nn