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CAPTURED ZEPPELIN CREW j .INTERVIEWED.I

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CAPTURED ZEPPELIN CREW j INTERVIEWED. The special correspondent of the "N ew York American," who, with other neutral journalists, has been permitted to visit the crew of the captured Zeppelin L15 at Chatham, says Only one of the 17 captives speaks Engldï, Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne, the second in command of the airship, and he had little hesitation in telling what he considered the unessential portions of the histor'y of L15's last cruise. No one would say whence the ship started and little could be gained as to its actual course beyond the fact that the officers swore th? they were convinced St ?nly points of military importance Xk?d. Apparently while engaged in this task the Zeppelin came under heavy fire and was struck, but although it is admitted that shells were bursting all round it, it A-as said, only one of the crew was hit, sustaining a superficial wound on the aTm. The injury to the ship was much more serious, and the captain, a lieutenant,- commander in the German Navy named Breithaupt. decided to head for home at the be-st speed obtainable. For the first half hour or so the Zeppelin seemed to maintain its buoyancy, but with difficulty. Then something went wrong with the framework, and ultimately the monster, with a broken back, dipped now foremost into the sea. It was now just midnight and on no hand could the Huns see succour; but suddenly out of the mists of the waters appeared British patrol ships, and soon the raiders' fear of death was removed. The ships did not, as the Germans ap- parently expected, open fire on them, and terms of surrender, unconditional in every respect, were quickly arranged. As quick- ly email boats shot out from the patrol ships, and in twos and threes took the shivering, and in some causes naked, Huns to safety. One of the Germans slipped, and losing his foothold, fell into the sea. Efforts were made- to rescue him, but without aviail, and he was drowned before the eyes of his comrades. MARRIED WEEK BEFORE RAID. Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne was the last to leave the airship, and probably of all the crew he was the most joyful at being saved He made no secret of his reason he confessed that only eight days pre- viously he had obtained leave from duty to marry a Berlin girl. He was ordered back from his honeymoon to take part in the raid, and his nrst request on reach- ing safety was that a message apprising his bride of his rescue might be des- pat-chedat once. It is understood that the British Navy, ever chivalrous towards defeated foes, means to comply with his request. With but one or two exceptions, all the crew deny that they have ever raided England before, but Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne admits that he was in London on holiday a short while before the outbreak of war. He is a little jovial man of about twenty-eight, but the commander is at last seven years older, taciturn and truly Teutonic in appearance. He and his se- cond in com/mand did not discard their clothing in the panic wh>ch seized the crew, and came ashore in their warm pea-jackets with deep fur-lined collars. The crew are all men between twenty- five and thirty-three yealrfc of age, of splendid physique and evidently picked Navy men. There are three or four en- gineers among them, denoted by a thin gold stripe on their collars, but each and everyone feigns ignorance of 6uch things as bombs dropped on sleeping towns, kill- ing women and children and maiming non-combatants. LONDON RAID IRON CROSS. There. is a more than passing interest for British people in the Iron Cross which Lieutenant-Commander Breithaupt still proudl wears on his br&a?t. It bears the ?te "Oct. 13, 1915," the date, in the words of the official report, of the raid "over a portion of the London area" when there were "127 persons killed or in- jured," aJl but one or two being non-com- batants, meetly women and children. That the commander received the Cross for his part in that raid is cleair from his own admission that before the war he Was in command of a German destroyer, but since learnt to hflJidle a Zeppelin. Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne did not hesi- ig to tell of his own remarkable ea-  He said "I was in the water-tight c &o\& o hen the ship struck the water o a ?? went underneath. I should have ?" no effort to es-pe had it not been  thought of my bride wadting for for ei,ght days' bride. JJ1« n Germany—my eight days' bride. >J!he ifought of her and her grief broke termination to go down with my ?y id I smashed one of the heavy ship, wi?ndo" and, taking a deep breath, AS& t?o?' I fought my way to the g?o II aJi?' --ping the entanglement OU?ffoO Soa?ng on the water, seized ^*00 floating on the 'water, seize d ? { t??. of the ship and was dragged in- to t, _tatJve aa?ty, to be finally res- fo c??be British sailors. I was the IMt zerivtfr c°,i^ nPt-Jve British saiIora- 1 was the last 1,15, as my watch stopped at 12.15 that would be the moment at which I took my plunge." Ober- Lieutei.ant Ki.hne freely admit- ted that he was well acquainted with England, and asked that his compliments should be conv%ed to a well-known Lon- don journalist whom he met when in Lon- don just before the outbreak of war. He has a sister married to an Englishman who is understood to live in the neigh- bourhood of Cambridge, one of the towns which the Germans in their official an- nouncement falsely claim to have bombed in the very raid in which her brother's airship was wrecked. IMPORTANT CAPTIVE. Mr. John C. Van der Veer, London editor of the "Amsterdam Telegraaf," one of those who interviewed the captured crew of the Zepptlin L15, told a London newspaper correspondent that one of the L15 prisoners said ''Something much worse is to come to England." "He seemed to know what was being prepared in the way of Zeppelin inva- sions, said Mr. Van der Veer, "and I understood, from what he said, that larger fleets of Zeppelins were to come here, with more powerful 'bombs. '"My impression is that the capture of the commander Breithaupt, is an event of great importance for England. There is only one Zeppelin commander who has the 'Pour le Merite' Order, and this is the man. Therefore, apparently, the most enterprising Zeppelin commander is now a prisoner in this country. He struck me as being an exceedingly clever ma.n.

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