New Britain herald., 1916-11-04
Germany Claims That Effort Was Made Destroy Only Surviving Witnesses H
 Ramming Small Boat
Story Told to A. P. CI spondent By Admiralt|
 Severe Arraignment ofl
 glish Methods of Att

Berlin, Nov. 1, By Wireless Associated Press, via Sayville German admiralty has furnish The Associated Press correspo the details of what is charact as a second Baralong case, in a British patrol ship flying Am@ colors, it is declared, after destr submarine U-41, deliberately | down rowboat with the only survivors of the undersea boat endeavor to remove the only nesses and has since prevented intended victims, who were aH miraculuously saved, from conn eating the news to their own goA ment. The incident, according to thV miralty, occurred on SeptembeI 1915, and has only just been led of through an invalided priI transferred to Switzerland. Incl marine, according to the adml account, had halted in the neig1 hood of the Scilly Isles for exar| tion of steamer under the And flag, apparently an innocent mercl man.
 The steamer ostensibIy prepar| lower a boat, but when the subm had approached to within 300 the supposed merchantmen sud, opened concealed ports and bega, ing from two cannon and also rifles, the American nag flying whole time, the account continu
 Submarine Goes Under.
 The submarine, irreparably aged, went under, but was abl come to the surface later for a stant, permitting Lieutenant Or ton, severely wounded and Pett, ficer Godau, to crawl through an open match before submarine sank forever.
 The sole survivors managed swim to an empty boat. The ste observing this, according to the miralty details, headed full spec the boat, not to save, but to I'd placing a lookout in the steal
 
 The Germans at the last mo sprang from the boat and cIung t wreckage of it for a half hour. the steamer finally picked them
 The wounded lieutenant Cron and his cOmrade were left wi the slightest medicaI attention small cage on the steamers deck her arrival at Falmouth the fo ing day, it is declared, although lieutenant had double fractui the jaw bone, a broad wound a the nose and cheek, wounds in left temple and on the finger, an eye shot out. It was not until tember 29 that the lieutenant transferred to a shore hospital, at the time only in his underclotf being transferred on November the military prison in York Ca whence the wounded officer, w. wounds were still open and who threatened with the loss of the 0 eye, was sent in mid december Dyfryn, Wales, the account state
 Detain Officer.
 A British surgeon later propose transfer the wounded officer as tally invalided, to Switzerland; ar Swiss commission of surgeons t voted that he be thus sent, but British surgeon general, it is decla vetoed the plan and the officer detained in England. The admir- declared that this was evidently a guilty conscience on the part of British, who wished to prevent news from being made known. L tenant Crompton repeatedly atteml to- send his report through the Ar ican embassy in London, it is assei but no report from him reached { many.
 An admiralty officer recalling newspaper reports of some time that the British goversment, hai been forced by German retalia measures to abandon drastic tr ment of captives from submarI had given orders to take no sub line prisoners but to send them the bottom with their vessels. clared to the correspondent that case, with that of the Baral should be considered as furnishinc necessary proof that the undeI story regarding the government der was true.
 The submarine U-41 was comma cd by lieut.. Commander Hansen, counted one of the bravest and of German submarine officers