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November 23, 1939.
SINKING OF THE Shanghai Sequel To Death LATE NEWS
COURAGEOUS
GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS forth Highlanders
BY SURVIVORS
Of British Soldier
Shanghai, Nov. 22. Private J. F. Eckförd of the Sea-]
appeared before Mr. C. H. Hotnes In the British Police Court to-day when the pre- of murder of Lattee-Cpl. James Davis- opened. The
U-BOAT BLOWN TOminary hearing of a charge
PIECES
31 MORE MEN SAVED
Many of the survivons of the air- etafi-carrier Courageous, sunk by a German submarine, brought, to their homes in Britain recently stories of the herolam shown by men of the Royal Navy on their ship sank.
They gave accounts of;
Jardine Ship In Storm
case was adjourned until: Tuesday-United Press,
A Jardine steamer is belleÿed to have encountered the full force of Reuter adds that only evidence of the blow.
Another Jardine ship, due to leave Identification was given. Davis was found shot dead on the back of the Kowloon at 10 a.m., has proceeded to with her passengers head while on duty in a blockhouse mid-stream on the defence perimeter on Novem-nboard.
ber 4.
Serval big liners. Including a Canadian Pacile vessel, an American President Uner, a M.M. liner and n A boy senman who waited on deck
and smoked a cigarette until the water seemed much longer. I must RLM ship have veered off from the ¡Colony and will not arrive on cry went up, "Every man for him-pay tribute to the handling of the self.
destroyer that Enved us, She was
schedule.
Double anchors and hawsers are A petly officer who dived 10 times so navigated that the swell created securing all vessels still in harbour.
from a destroyer into the sea to by her progress helped us to swim rescue exhausted men.
towards her.
A badly-burned stoker, whose first
words were, "What about the swam alongside me and said "Help
"As I got fairly near her o fellowi lads down below?"; and The caplain, who issued orders untume. I ripped him by the hair and the last minute, standing at the When a man off the destroyer caught salute on his bridge as the ship hanging on. That chap's long ab-
me to pull me aboard I was st took her final plunge.
ADMIRALTY STATEMENTS life.
sence from the barber's saved his
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Omclat onnouncements by the "Another Impression' which will Admiralty last month showed that live in my memory is that of a Royal there are 712 known survivors, but Marine sergeant who 548 men still unaccounted for. An cover an enormous distance swbnm- Admiralty statement issued was asing from man to man and making follows:
The following are approximate and you will be all right. Keep your such remarks as 'Keep going, my lad, ngures of the complement of ILMS heart and your head up. There Courageous and of the survivors of were heroes in plenty, no doubt, but the disaster, according to the in that sergeant formation in the possession of the Admiralty up to 1 p.m. Sepl. 19: "Complement.Officers, 90: rations,
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WATCH AS MEMENTO
STOPPED WHEN SAILOR DIVED INTO SEA
1.170; total, 1,260. "Survivors, lists already published,— Omeers, 45; ratings, 381; total, 426. "Approximate number of additional
survivors. 'lisis to be published asi ·Stoker William Britton, of Busby, Soon as naunes are available-near Glasgow, a pensioner with 23 naval service, showed his Omeers, 23; ratings, 230; total, 255, years "Approximate tofal of known sur-Criends & watch, ita fagers rusted by vivors-Oficers, 70: ratings, 811: immersion in the sea, which hack totul, 001,"
stopped at 8.6 p... when he plunged into the ses
The Admiralty announced that 31 more survivors had been accounted for. Of these, 23 are in the Royal Marines and the rest in the Royal Fleet Reserve. •
He warmly praised a pelty officer one of the rescue destroyers who dived 10 times from his ship, swam to men who were exhausted, and A German official statement broad-held them up until they could be gol
said: "The
announcement aboard. A young A.B. went over-| ment of the British Admiralty re-board twice to save couple of men. garding the sinking of the aircraft- After the Courageous was hit the carrier Courageous has been cun-officers carried on, issuing thele firmed by the attacking U-boat." orders crisply and quietly. One en-
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the British Admiralty ro-decks were awash, plunged down a Admiralty's statement that "the sub-hatchway in an attempt to trim the marine was inmediately heavily at- listing ship. tacked by destroyers and is believed! "I was playing rummy with some to have been sunit.
Imates," he said, "when there was an explosion. The next I knew I was, shoulder deep in water.
This is confirmed by accounts given by several survivors who saw a submarine sink as they waited to be rescued.
One theury i navel circles is that two submarines were involved in the attack on the Courageous.
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ROLL UP THE BARREL"
"When I got on deck was about at; in." I heard the Commander may, 'Cut all the floats ndrift.' I uninced One of the youngest survivors is my boots and slipped into the water. Bugler R. D. Emerson, of the Royal i saw a boat full of men and struck Marines, aged 15, and only 5ft. in out for her, but she foundered before height. When the ship was struck i could reach her, and I was finally he went on the flight deck, took off picked up by n destroyer which took his bugle and tied it to the ship's on bourd about 380 survivors." rail. Then he undressed, clambered Petty Ofleer FB. Worrallo, of down the starboard side and struck Walsall, said. "After the explosion out for a raft.
everybody quickly calmed down anwar told me to wait and they would "Our destroyers were dropping carried out the orders of the captain, tell me when to jump. depth charges," he said, "and within who remained perfectly cool, telling! a few minutes we saw the submarine us to take things quietly, as there Everybody was cool and as the blown
up. There was no doubt was plenty
men waited to "go" overboard"they" When the ship: about it. The conning tower broke began to settle, he gave the order to Calmly counted their money, throw- ing away the coppers and tucking une way and the stern was blown take to the water." another and off shot up from the John Desmond Wells, aged 16. sliver and uotes into their Lody
belts. water. We all cheered,
boy seaman, of Seaton, Devon, saldi
of
"As we puddled away the men he was reading in his rock wall- "I saw a font with men on her. sang "Heigh ho, it's off to work, we ing to go on duty when an explosion One, a boy of about 15, shouted. go. We had not got für when the stunned him.
Come on, luds, what about a sung?" Courageous went down with 200 men
Coming to his senses, he jumped and they all begin to sing lustily." on board,"
from his hammock and nearly fell 50 A 17-year-old Exeter survivor | Last night the bugler's health was feet into a well. The ship was list-said: "I helped to lower a bout which tousted in the mess of the Royal Ing badly and it was difficult to and got stuck, and a couple of us climbed Marines barracks at a British port, one's way about in the darkness. down over the side of the ship to U-BOAT LIFTED OUT OF WATER "After groping about I managed to push her off.
One of the most dromatle accounts get to the upper deck,” he veted. "About 30 men were in her, but was given by Naval Writer Tom"Many men were running about buijthere was a rush of water into her Hughes. 18. of 51, Anne's.
there was no panię,
stern' as she reached the sea. She
When the first explosion becurred, "I slid down a blister ja form of (sank and the men were forced to he sald, he was in the cantecu. He protection on the ships side) to with- (swim. made a rush for the deck, and as he in six feet of the water and stayed "Meanwhile, I walled on deck and was going up the companion-way there for 10 minuica. Other men did smokes a cigarette. Then I heard a There was another explosion and a the sante.
shout, 'Every man for himself, and sheet of flome. He found men were It was apparent that the ship was I went down to ship's side on a rope. ; throwing overboard pieces of wood, sinking, her bows being alrendy near-
BALING WITH CAPS bars and anything that would Roat.|ly under water. I jumped clear and "I reached a float with a number AN an officer gave the order, awam in the direction of a destroyer of men on it and they helped me "Swim for 1," he clambered down which was standing about a mile oft. aboard. Everybody was cheerful, a rope and dropped Into the sea, There were also two other destroyers Somebody sald, Let's have a song. which was "so thick with oil that and two morchant vessels.
boys, and we struck up Rolling
we might have been swimming in "I believe 1 was in the water an Home' and 'Show Me the Way to Go treacle." He reached a raft, and was hour I swam through off and was Home." eventually taken aboard a destroyer, covered with it from head to font] "After about 45 minutes a des- "When we realised we had been when I was pleked up by a small troyer came alongside, and she was torpedoed," sald Naval Writer bont."
handled $Q beautifully that she
Hughes, "our men were so infuriated] Wells said that at no time was hardly disturbed the font." that they threw overboard depth there any panic, and when the men W. Furze, an A.B., zaid: "The fest charges in an effort to sink the. Uwere in the water they sang "Roll'ah' struck Courageous I believe boat.
up the barrel."
between the foretop and the patty officers', mess. We got out as many i WAITING MEN COUNT bout as possible, and another mon
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*"I was swimming when I heard a dull roar. Suddenly the submarine Hrted clean out of the water and fel! back like a stone. There is no doubt she was sunk,
· CAPTAIN AT THE SALUTE
to sing."
COPPERS THROWN AWAY
and
and I manned a cutler.
"Just as the cutter was going down the got a bit of a knock, but wel managed to get away with about 40:
"Hundreds of us who were strug- Andrew Logue, a young seoman hands. We got about 40 yards away, ging in the water for our lives raised from Dumbarton, said a destroyer and baled with caps, but the culter a cheer. While we were swimming] raced over the spot where the sub sank. down-i merine Joy someone shouted, 'Are we hearted?', and there was a respund-} charges. ing "Note in reply. Then we started}
Hughes said one of his most vivid recollections was that as he wag in the water be caught a glimpse of thei commander of the Courageous, Capt. Makely-Jones, standing of the salute on the bridge as the vessel took her final plunge.
'dropped depth "I was taken in a destroyer and then I saw the Courageous heel over "I was going over the side of the end go, under. People were clinging Courageous while the ship was still to her and I saw several go down moving, he continued, "but some with her. The last I saw of the older men who had been in the last skipper, he was saluting the Ensign."
A gunnery offleer stated "Owing to the list that the Courageour took, a number of men' were unsuccessful in their efforts to jump. clear of the
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