The sun., 1919-06-26
ARTIST GRIBBLE
SAW SHIPSSINK
English Marine Painter De-
scribes Scuttling at
Scapa Flow.
GERMANS ARE IMPUDENT
Sailors Explained They Were
Only Carrying Out
Orders.
GERMANS ARE IMPUDENT
Special Caois DespatcA 10 THH Sun from the
London Timer Service.


London Times Service.
Copyright, 1879: oil rights reserved
LONDON, June 25.-Here Is the story
Of the sinking Of the German fleet at
Scapd FIotc as narrated by Bernard
r. G,IbbIe, r. A., the English marine
arttst, employed by the American Gor-
ernment to paint the surrender Of the
German fleet.
BY b. r. GRIBBLE.
Under command of Second Leuten-
ant C. Leeth we were simply cruising
around, and as 1t happened WAS only
Just In time to get the drawings
wanted. About 11;45 ! noticed Ger
man sailors on board the Friedrich
der Crosse throwing baggage into
boats which were already alongside
the vessels. l remarked to Lieut..
| Leeth, DO you allow them to go for
10y rows?" He replied, no. but by
Jove, 1t looks as II they were"
Then after a moments hesitation
Lieut.. Leeth exclaimed. MY word.
have got It. I believe they are scut-
Ting their ships and are abandoning
| them"
BY this time the Germans were
throwing their baggage into the boats
| at great speed and simultaneously we
observed that the same thing was hap
pening on board the Frankfurt, which
was on our right. At that moment we
made straight for the nearest vessel.
which happened to be the Frankfurt.
and Lieut., Leeth ordered his men to
get their cutlasses and rifles ready.
He then shouted an order to the Ger
mans, who were now in their boats, to
| return to their ships at once The
German sailors apparently had thrown
their oars away and they shouted
back, I'VE have no oars"
| A British sailor then shouted to them
and he threw a number OF oars into the
| water.
| Germans Impudent.
| There were two boats approaching us
| and the German officers were extremely
impudent Standing on the bows OF
their boats they shouted:
Cant you take US on board into
safety:
Lieut.. Leeth replied. mo. return to
your ships at once II you don't will
nre on you"
II then became necessary to open nre
and the Germans were seen to wave
white flags.
One German oficer shouted:
You have killed four Of my men
| and We have no arms"
| Our officer shouted to them:
"You look after them by getting them
back to the ships"
The ofiicer said:
I'VE can't go back. they are sinking"
Lieut.. Leeth said You must 20 back
and prevent them from sinking"
The Germans replied:
at Is not our fault, we are carrying
| out our orders"
| BY this time the Friedrich der Crosse
| had listed over to port and in n few
minutes went down. Her crew had suc-
ceeded in getting round into tho open
| and we managed 10 get three boats In
| tow and m m~SsaEes were signalled to the
coast guards requesting them TO Marconi
to the feet. It took about two hours,
however, before the irst Of tho destroy
| ers arrived.
The Germans in their boats were very
daring and endeavored to come alongside
our vessel. One OF the crew. however,
kept them of by threatening them with
q revolver. BY this time the Drummer,
a cruiser OF the Emden class, had begun
to turn over and the first destroyer Of
the British feet arrived Just In time to
see her go down. The German crews
| who were out In the open sea chsered as
they saw their chips do down
Hoist German Ensign.
| One Of the German battle cruisers, I
think 1t was tho Hindenburg. hoisted
the German ensign and I noticed that
all the German vessels had been flying
two code fiags at the peak. The upper
| nag was a white ball on a blue pennant
and the lower was yellow and blue
pennant had noticed on the previous
day that the same signals were flying.
They were flown by the Emden and APP
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