Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-05
German Submarines Run
Amuck Among Fleets of Brit
ish Fishing Craft.
FOUR MEN ARE KILLED
ABOARD ONE TRAVELLER
Crews in Most Instances Given Time
to Launch and Provision Their
Small Boats.

LONDON. May :. los p.n,-Eieven
German submarines in tho North sea
Monday. according to messages re-
ceived here from Hull. England. and
Aberdeen. Scotland.
Four mon were killed on one trawler
by German gunhre. and four Of seven
survivors of the crew landed at Aber-
deem were wounded
List of Sunken Trawlers-
In addition to the Iolanthe. the Hero
and the Northward Ho. the victims be-
longing in Hull include the Hector.
Progress. Coouette and Bob White.
while the Rugby and the Uxbridge,
owned in Grimsby. met a similar fate.
So far as is known no lives were lost
in these encounters.
According to the crews of the fishing
vessels the submarine which wrought
this damage is of the newest type. She
has an iron cross painted on her con-
ming tower. She ran amuck among
the fishing fleet Monday and sank
seven trawlers in quick succession.
The crews were given time to escape,
hut in some cases the small boats
drifted for hours before they were
picked up.
Each man coming ashore is exhibit
ing huge lump of black bread, given
MIN by the crew of the submarine
which sent his boat down. The Eng
fish sailors are preserving these pieces
of bread as souvenirs.
Four Killed; Four Wounded.
ABERDEEN, Scotland. May 5.-Seven
members Of the crew of the trawler Cruis
er. of whom four were wounded by the
shell fire Of a German submarine, have
been landed here by collier. They say
hat the Cruiser was approaching Aber-
deem harbor, laden with fish, when the
submarine appeared and opened fire.
One shell struck the trawler's bridge,
instantly killing four members of the
crew. The survivors assert that the re-
manning seven hands took to their boat
and were rowing away when the sub
marine fred again. wounding four Of the
men and causing the boat to capsiZe. The
men thrown into the water were rescued
rom drowning by the collier.
The trawler Scottish Queen also has
been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine
fifty miles of Aberdeen. The crew was
landed here.
The rescued men say they were given
fifteen minutes to leave their vessel, but
her and procure provisions.
Crews Landed at Hull.
HULL, England. May 5.-The crews
of the trawlers Iolanthe. Hero and
Northward Ho have landed here. re-
porting the destruction of their boats
by German submarine. No lives were
lost aboard any of the three.
A Copenhagen dispatch states that
while three trawlers were fishing in
the North sea a German submarine
appeared and ordered them to stop.
The crews then took to their boats and
rowed away. after which the trawlers
we're blown up by boarding parties
from the submarine. After rowing
about for eight hours the fishermen
summoned aid by burning articles of
clothing which had been attached to
oars.
The trawler Hero ATTEMPTED to es-
cape. but after an exciting chase which
lasted an hour the submarine got into
lose range and opened a fusillade with
rifles. whereupon the skipper of the
fisherman stopped and the crew took
10 the small boats
The trawler Portia has reached Hull
after an exciting chase in which she
managed to elude the submarine which
was after her.