KNOW HUNS, I LIVINfi-DEAD MEN, UND'INENRAND Bismarck Survivors Stare Straight Ahead=Look Like Zombies

(By Eddie Gilmore . Associated Press Staff Writer) An English Port, May 31-(AP) -This is the 'story of _men torn from the e'ostacy :of victory to the bitterness of defeat-82 haggard survivors of the- sunken German battleship Bismarck.' Their grim faces illuminated by flickering lights at the . water's edge, they shuffled slowly down, a. ' gangplank onto British soil early to-day, speechless, walking like men dazed . "That's just it," commented a British officer. "That's the way most of them have acted ever since we dragged them from the water ." They were not talking, not even muttering to one another. With the shock of their experiences in their - hollow eyes, they stared ahead or at their own stumbling feet as they stepped onto British soil. Like Men in Movie They reminded me of an overmelodramatic movie I once saw about Zombies-the living-dead of West Indies legends who walk without souls . "It's easy to realize their feelings," a British officer said "They sank the Hood, one of the ;war's greatest prizes, and then lived to be sunk in turn. You know, they went almost all the 'way toward whole hero, only tc #gave every hope dissipated ." "That's no ordinary group of seamen, either," another British of" fiver remarked. "They never once struck their ensign . Kept it flying until the Bismarck went right over on her belly." The Germans were clad as if headed for a masque-ball to vie for prizes for the most oddly-assorted costume . "It's the strangest thing about their clothes," an officer said . "When we took them out of that icy sea many of them had on nothing, and some just burned rags. They told us-the ones that could speak English-that in the blasts that shook the Bismarck their clothes seemed to be just ripped off them ." The prisoners had been fitted out in spare and cast-off clothes of their captors . Sometimes when Nazi prisoners axe marched off to prison camps they raise their arms in the Nazi salute . These men didn't . Their shuffling gait unquickened, they filed past a line of British seamen on into the darkness.

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