What little activity has been noticeable among the German submarines
lately seems to have taken the peculiarly brutal forme of sinking trawlers. In all previous wars fishermen have been exempt from attaok. On Thursday week the steam trawler ' St. Lawrence' was shelled on the Dogger Bank. After the trawler's lifeboat had left the side of the vessel, since the fire was too hot for the crew to stay, two men remained on board, and these jumped overboard. A shameful act followed. The submarine prevented the lifeboat from picking the two men out of the sea, and both were drowned. The survivors were rescued by another trawler and landed at Grimsby. We ought to add that the German Government have denied the facts stated above. We have therefore to choose between the word of German official, and that of British seamen. We cannot say that we are left in much doubt as to whose story to accept.
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