London, June 15.
The captain and seven members vf the crew of the British steamer Kemmending. which was sunk by a German raider in the Indian Ocean on July 13, 1940, when on a voyage from Capetown to Rangoon, were landed at a British port on Saturday.
They said the raider shelled the Kemmendine heavily and the crew and passengers had to take to the boats, The Germans took them aboard, and then sank the Kemmendine with two torpedoes. The captain and some officers and sailors of the Kemmendine were brought on deck to witness the end of their ship.
'The eight survivers landed in Britain spent several months aboard the raider during which time they saw 10 Allied vessels sunk by the German ship. They fared fairly well aboard the raider but when transferred to a' captured Yugoslav ship they were almost on the verge of starvation and their allowance of water Was so small that they collected condensation from the steam pipes and rain water.
The Yugoslav ship grounded on the coast of Italian Somaliland and the survivors were sent to an Italian prison camp where they underwent severe hardship before being freed by South African troops after the successful East African advance.
The majority of the passengers of the Kemmendine, numbering 36. and the crew totalling 111, were transferred to another vessel captured by the raider and are believed to have been sent to Germany.—Reuter.
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