New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1917, Page 3

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Remember, Father John’s Medicine has had sixty years’ success for colds, coughs, throat troubles and as a tonic and body builder. Stackpole, Moore, Tryon Company, 115 Asylum St. Hartford The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes ASK FOR and GET Horlick’s The Original Malted Milk Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price. SNELL RELATES MURDER BY SUB Negro Gbok Says Crew Was Lelt Struggling in the Sea ‘Washington, Oct. 8.—With the ap- proval of the Navy Department, the Committee on Public Information last night made public an account of the sinking last July by a German sub- marine of the British steamer Belgian Prince, with the loss of thirty-eight lives, as officially reported to the de- partment by an American naval offi- cer in the form of a verbatim state- ;ment from Willlam Snell, & negro cook on the Belgian Prince. The | story was made public exactly as { taken down by an officer of the | American navy from Snell, who was one of the three survivors of the crew of the steamer. It is practically in Snell’'s own words. The statement follows: “About 8 o'clock p. m. July 381, I heard an explosion—did not know whether it was a torpedo or a bomb— and I ran to my lifeboat, the boats having been lowered partly from their davits. After the crew board- ed lifeboats they were lowered into the water, and we rowed from the ship about fifty yards, when the sub- marine came to the surface about 100 yards from us and fired at the wireless on board the Belgian Prince and tore it down: then she came slowly between our three boats—the fourth life boat having been blown to pieces when the explosion occurred —Ileaving the captain’s boat on the port side of the submarine and the other two boats on the starboard side, and asked for the captain. The captain said, ‘Here I am.” He was taken into the conning tower of.the submarine and asked for his papers, and they were delivered up to the commander of the submarine. “The commander of the submarine said, ‘Is there any gunners over there?” and our officer replied, ‘No, Sir, they got killed.” The commander of the submarine sald, ‘If there is no gunners aboard there, bring your boats alongside.” * And as we got alongside he said. ‘All hands on deck.’ When we got on deck he sald, ‘Hands up.” Then he lined us up in single rank from the bow of the vessel as far aft as the gun which was on board her. forward the con- ning tower and which appeared to be a 6-inch gun. “There were two men of the sub- marine’s crew on top of the conning tower with guns of a large bore in their hands, which they kept trained on us. Seven others of the German crew stood abreast our line on the starboard of the ship, armed with automatic revolvers, guarding us. The captain of the submarine was also on deck and stood near the for- ward gun, giving instructions in Ger- man to his crew what to do. One seaman of the submarine’s crew stood a little aft the conning tower, about abreast the breech of the after gun. “The commander then walked along the line of the Belgian Prince’s crew, asking them if they had any arms on their persons and searching each indi- vidual. He commanded us to take off our lifebelts and throw them on deck, which we did. As the lifebelts were dropped, the commander picked them up and threw them overboard. “When I threw my belt . down I shoved it ahead on the deck with my foot, and finally stood on it. As he walked along the line, he huddled us together in a crowd, and then went and pulled the plugs out of our life- | boats, which were lying on the star- board bow of the submarine, and he then walked aft to the conning tower, at which time I picked up my belt quickly and thrust it under a big loose oflskin which I was wearing at the time, hugging it close to my breast with my arms. “When the commander went to the conning tower four Germans came on deck and got in our captain’s boat, which was lylng on the port side of the submarine, and the submarine backed a little, then steamed ahead and rammed and smashed one of our boats, which had been lying on the starboard bow and had been cast off from the submarine a few mo- ments before she backed. “The four men who had gotten into our captain’s boat rowed alongside the Belgian Prince. The submarine then steamed ahead as near as I can guess about nine knots an hour, leav- ing her four men in our captain’s boat alongside the Belgian Prince, all of us, except our captain, being huddled up together on her forward deck. Into the Sea. “‘She steamed thus about one hour and a half, at which time I noticed that the water was rising slowly on | the forward deck, and it came up on my feet. I also noticed, some little | time before this, which time I cannot | accurately state, the conning tower had been closed. “The water continued to rise | arouna my ankles, and when the wa- | ter got six inches up on my legs I | pulled my life belt out quickly, threw i it over my shoulders and jumped overboard. The other men did not seem to know what was going to hap- pen, some of them saying, ‘I wonder if they are going to drown us,’ etc. About ten seconds after I jumped I heard a suction of a vessel sinking, and the submarine had submerged en- tirely, leaving the crew of the Bel- gian Prince struggling in the water. “I commenced to swim toward the | Belgian Prince, which I could see faintly in the distance, it not being very dark in this latitude at this time of night. I am a good swimmer, and swam practically all night on my | back and in other positions. One of ! our crew, who was without a life- belt—I1 do not know his name-—kept about five yards from me for about W&a HARTFORD Prompt Service on Mail and 'Phone Orders. Carry Small cels With You As a Patriotic Duty. Par- SHOPPING IN PARIS FOR AMERICAN Many of our boys are now in there moon. folks is highly desirable. SOLDIERS France. 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This man finally bec exhausted and sank. 1 h d nu ous other cries for help from our men, but could not see them. “Later I heard a whirring noise, something like an airplane, and smelled the odor of gasoline, which I thought was the submarine returning toward the Belgian Prince to pick up her four men. When day broke there were lots of dead bodies of my old shipmates floating around me. Then, about 5 o'clock, as near as I can judge, T made out the Belgian Prince | and four men coming over her side. They had been lowering some stuff off the Belgian Prince into the boat alongside. “I cried out, ‘Help, help,’ but they paid no attention to me. At this time the submarine came to the surface about fifty yards from the Belgian Prince, and the four men from the Belgian Prince approached the sub- marine in their boat, and they hoisted some stuft out of the rowboat and put it on board the submarine, and about ten minutes afterward she submerged, leaving one man in the lifeboat, the other three having gone on board the | submersible. “As the submarine submerged T heard a great explosion, and the Bel- glan Prince broke in two and sank. I saw a vessel approaching from a far distance, and she gradually ap- proached me. She came within a hundred yards of me, close to Where the Belgian Prince had sunk. She: passed me, proceeded some little dis- tance, turned around and came back and picked me up, at which time I was just commencing to lose con- sclousness. As soon as I revived TIf made a -full statement of the sinking ! of the Belgian Prince, and the drown- | ing of her crew, to the captain of the | hoat that picked me up, Which was a | British patrol boat. : “It appears that the man whom I mentioned as having been left in tho rowboat when the submarine sub- merged, was picked up by the British ! patrol boat after I became uncon- scious; also the chief engineer of the | Belgian Prince, who had gotten hold ! of a log after the submarine first sub- ! merged, and thus had saved his life, was Dicked up. We were taken by | the British patrol boat to London-| derry, Ireland. After we landed at | Londonderry I was in a hospital for eight days, recovering from my ex- perience in the water. “While I was in the hospital they kept the man who was picked up out of the lifeboat and who was a Rus- sian and a member of the Belgian Prince’s crew in confinement in Lon- donderry until I recovered sufficiently to give a statement to the British offi- cials, the Russian having told a some- what different story, which they could not believe until I corroborated it in most of its particulans, I believe the reason they could A&bdrcely believe from the 'Ruysigh ¢Wat the Germans would do such a tHing.” | MISSION AT ST. 2 Paulizt Fathers in Charge of Spes services For Two Weeks, At St. Mary's church yesterday morning the two-weeks biennial mis- sion opened at 10 o’'clock mass when Rev. Peter J. Moran preached an elo- quent sermon showing the need of { missions in the life of the average man and women. He urged that it be followed as conscienciously as pos- sible by all. Father Moran and Rev. nin, who arrived in this city late Saturday afternoon, will be joined Tuesday by two other members of the Paulist order, who at present are com- pleting a mission at St. Catherine's church in Canada. The order of ser- vices will be as follow: a. m., mass and instruction; 8 a. m., mass and in- struction; 7:30 p. m., mission sermon and services. In his initial sermon at the church yesterday Father Moran made a good impression. This week will be women'’s week, next week to be devoted to the men. The church was crowded as is always the case when there is a mission at St. Mary’s. J. F. Cro- MAMMA ! GIVE A CASCARET QUICK, LOOK AT TONGUE Don’t you see your child feverish, sick constipated? is bilious, Relieve little stomach, liver bowels with candy cathartic. and Listless, peevish, feverish, droopinz Little stomach sick, breath sour and i tongue coated, Mamma, you must act now or your little one will be real ick socn. 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