New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

and a crew of 1913. OF these the
following are missing and presumed
drowned:
1.-TWO wounded British officers.
ELEVEN wounded British, other
ranks.
Zone R. A. M. C. staff.
Give crew.
1.-TWO wounded German officers.
"Thirteen wounded German, other
ranks.
"One hundred and fifty-two wound
ed German prisoners were rescued
by British patrol boats at the immi-
nent risk of being themselves tor
pedoed." s. .s*39
Wounded Prussians
in a Funk
The torpedoing of the Lanfranc
is best described in an article which
appeared on April %, 1917, in "The
Daily Telegraph" 1t is the per-
sonal narrative of wounded officer
"The Lanfranc was attacked by
a submarine about 1880 Tuesday
evening, just as we had finished
dinner. A few of us were strolling
to and fro on the deck, when there
was crash which shook the liner
violently. This was followed by an
explosion, and glass and splinters of
wood flew in all directions. / had
a narrow escape from being pitched
overheard and only regained my feet
with difficulty. In a few minutes
the engines had stopped and the
Lanfranc appeared to be sinking
rapidly, but to our surprise she
steadied herself and after a while
remained perfectly motionless. We
had on board nearly 200 wounded
prisoners belonging to the Prussian
Guard. and about twice as many
British wounded, many being very
bad cases. The moment tho
torpedo struck the Lanfranc many
of the slightly wounded Prussians
made mad rush for the lifeboats.
One Of their officers came up to a
boat close to which l was standing.
shouted to him to go back, where
upon he stood and scowled. You
save u.s. he begged. l told him to
wait his turn.
meanwhile the crew and the
staff had gone to their posts. Tho
stretcher cases were brought on
deck as quickly as possible and the
first boats were lowered without de-
lay. Help had been summoned and
many vessels were hurrying to our
assistance. In these moments, while
wounded Tommies-many Of them
as helpless as little children-lay
in their cots unaided, the Prussian
morale dropped to zero. They made
another crazy effort to get into q
lifeboat. They managed to crowd
into one, but no sooner had it been
lowered than it toppled over. The
Prussians were thrown into the
water and they fought with each
other in order to reach another boat
containing a number of gravely
wounded soldiers.
! "The behavior of our own lads
shall never forget. Crippled as
many of them were, they tried to
stand at attention while the more
serious cases were being looked
after. And those who could lend a
hand scurried below to help in saw
ing friend or enemy. I have never
seen so many individual illustration
CT genuine chivalry and comrade-
ship. One man I saw had had a
leg severed and his head was heav-
lily bandaged. He was lifting him.
self up a staircase by the hands
and was just as keen on summoning
help for Fritz as on saving himself.
He whistled to mate to come and
aid Prussian who was unable to
move owing to internal injuries. An
other Tommy limped painfully along
with Prussian officer on his arm
and helped the latter to a boat. II
is impossible to give adequate praise
to the crew and staff. They were
all heroes. They remained at their
posts until the last man had been
taken off, and some of them took
off articles of their clothing and
threw them into the lifeboats for
the benefit of those who were in
need of warm clothing. The same
spirit manifested itself as we moved
away from the scene of outrage.
saw a sergeant take his tunic of