The sun., 1918-07-03
water like a gisant wounded shark. and

water like a gigant wounded shark. and
going to her death without a struggle.
Uncertainty of our position overcame
thoughts of my own injury, but above all
1 could not help wonder what had be-
come OF the others. After the subma-
rine disappeared with a swish all was
stillness---a terrible stiffness. No more
cries for help were heard.
''Then a long night. After thirty-six
hours we were rescued by British de-
stroyer, and here I am with every COM
fort and attention. But / cannot help
feel that " the Germans had not inter-
fered we could possibly have saved many
Of those poor souls in the water clinging
to wreckage and crying for help that
never came"
Joseph Havelock Wilson. president OF
the British seamen's union. IL urged in
resolutions passed at a meeting OF 500
seamen and stewards at Liverpool to-
day to add another five years to the
after the war boycott OF the Germans
FOR the sinking of the Llandovery Castle.
The period Of the boycott announced
last week by Mr.. Wilson is now sixty
eight months.
The resolution denounces the sinking
of the Llandovery Castle as the most
diabolical and most cowardly murder of
our brothers on the high seas
I'm the presence OF such unspeakab bic
infamy deliberately repeated" says the
DdpJ Chronicle, at Ia waste of
breath to reiterate the adherence which
everybody with a spark OF civilized
sense must feel But we would invite
the German people to ask themselves
what is the use OF their statesmen ap.
pealing. like Foreign Secretary vor
Kuehlmann, to be credited with 'probity
a,,l alt Ito
honorable and unashamed. continue &c
be carried out by the orders Of theil
Government"
The excuse for the attack on the
Llandovery Castle" says the Oath
MuN, was a lie. and the German officer
who told it did not believe It himseli
when he said to the captain:
"'You are carrying eight American
flight officers"
Would Have Been Proof.
II there had been a particle of truth
in the charge, the newspaper adds. the
Llandovery Castle, seize the eigh
officers and take them to Germany al
proof of the allied guilt in using hos
pitnl ships for transports.
The Daily Netos declares the sinking
| OF the hospital ship stands out as "ont
CT the most horrible incidents in the
hideous story OF submarine warfare"
In no circumstance OF the tragedy
declares the Times, does the story differ
from those of other hospital ships thai
have been destroyed. In this case. how.
ever, II points out. there is an added
| element OF horror in the repeated at.
tempt OF the submarine commander &c
| justify himself by accusations against
the victim. and in his wild fury OF CUR
fire and destructive rushing to and frc
| among the wreckage.
III these were not attempts to sinl
all the survivors and blot out all trace
| of the crime. what was their motive -
| asks this newspaper. 1T Is unforget
table. without the fact that the news o.
the tragedy to Canadian Red Cross mer
| and women came to the knowledge Of
| the Canadians on their national festival
| The other British peoples will not forge
II, nor yet. we may be sure, will tn,
| American people,
Any ship VIII Do.
| The Manchester Guardian says tw,
| questions often are asked These are
| why do German submarine command
ers permit these foul deeds which mus
react upon the neutral world and re
| main in history rs the browning dlsgrac,
| OF their unclesn record?" and Has Ger
many ever punished the perpetrators o
| these deeds"
ITO the first question" says the ar
| ticlc. the view OF those who follow
| closely the doinGs OF the German Ad
| miralty and navy Ia that the subma
rine commanders are not acting on in
srructions in sinking hospital ships. bI
neither do they run any danger OF Of
fCial cen$ure.
"A ship is a ship. and il a hospita
| ship Is sunk 1t has to he replaced b,
| another good ship and 80 the shipping
| capacity of the Allies is reduced.
THE defence which the German Gov
| eminent recently made by attributin
| the destruction OF hospital ship to
| mine will not do in the case OF tn
| Llandovery Castle. A submarine ap
| peared and the attitude OF its capital,
| suggests that this was one Of the mos
! cynical and cold hlooded attacks Their
| has been He declared the ship wa
| carrying eight American flight officers
| and then. as an afterthousht, asserte
| that the explosion in the sinking sh
showed she must have been carryin
| ammunition.
TT is right that evidence Of this kin
| should be set before a world jury, be
cause the verdict of the world. thong
the German General Staff despses !!
viii yet be important to Germany 4
the days to come"