Bleven survivors, who were brought swam to. the water= Togued life-boat, and would probably have been picked up but for the fact that about 6.15 pin. the approach of British cruiser "caused the German ships Immediately to withdraw.
The Chitral, it is learned, is now in service as an armed merchant cruiser. The Chitral has frequently called at Shanghai as she was on the Far Eastern run for a considerable period.
One survivor picked up by the Chitral "was found clinging to an overturned lifeboat 23 hours after the Rawalpindi sank. The Chitral picked the Rawalpind's SO, at the height of the battle and went to her assistance at full speed. A survivor said that the German ships. opened fire without warning, and with their guns battered the Rawalpindi, The crow, he asserted, had little chance of golfing Into boats, "As the Rawipind was going down for the tual plunge; the survivor said, "the Deutschland put on fullespeed' past the lifeboat, almost swamping it" For hours, the survivors from the overturned lifeboat had to crouch on the keel, hold-on desperately, and they were so "the British Press Association reported that an American woman passenger of the Netherlands liner Spaarndam was drowned and four of the crew were lost when the ship struck mine and sank yesterday morninit off the Thames estuary.
American woman's name was given Mrs, Stephen. Two of the crew were killed by. the mine explosion.
British reports also confirmed. the: sinking of the British freighter Royston Grange, §,144-tons, in the Atlantic yesterday, 'The ship's crew was un-Berstood to have been saved. The' Royston Grange was the vielim of a German submarine, wave when the Chitral appeared. The Chitral landed the survivors and 32
A life-boat_ was launched from. the north-east Kent coast after coast guard officials received a distress message from a ship which had struck a mine. The name of the vessel has hol yet been disclosed.—United Press.
"Eple of Navat Warfar London, Nov. 28.
'The gallant fight against overwhelm= ing odds of the merchant cruiser Rawalpindi is hailed' by the morning newspapers as another epic of naval warfare. The "Daily Mail" charae-
less fight, a ght worthy of Grenville, tenses it valiant fight—a hope-Drake, Hawke, Nelson, 'Jellicoe and Beatty. 'The Rawalpindi' went down with her flag fying and with a grand tradition safe in her keeping."
It is an heroic, episode, says the fews-Chronicle," and by many a British reside, It will be remembered with pride is, well as til. The ally Express" states "The nation will mourn the "lads. and glory in their heroic fight, when, out-gunned taken apart by French mechani French engineers. profit have. and judging by the expression
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