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Date: 7 April 1915
Transcript:
[photograph of the FALABA]
TORPEDOED BY AN ENEMY SUBMARINE WHOSE CREW ARE SAID TO HAVE LAUGHED AND JEERED AT THE DROWNING: THE "FALABA."
The Admiralty announced on March 29: "British steamship ss 'Falaba,' 4806 tons (owned by Elder, Dempster, and Co., Ltd.) was torpedoed at 12.25 p.m., March 28, to the south of the St. George's Channel, and sank in ten minutes. The ship carried a crew of about ninety persons, with about 160 passengers. About 140 survivors have been picked up, eight of whom, including the captain, died after being picked up. It is feared that many were killed by the explosion of the torpedo." It has been reported that the crew of the enemy submarine laughed and jeered as passengers and crew fell from the "Falaba" into the water, to drown. This, surely, is the most contemptible thing the German Navy has done. The "Falaba" was bound from Liverpool to the West African coast.
Source:
"Torpedoed by an Enemy Submarine Whose Crew Are Said to Have Laughed and Jeered at the Drowning: The 'Falaba'." The Illustrated War News 35 (7 Apr 1915): 32.
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