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IIRC it was agreed upon international law to both make your presence known prior confronting enemy vessels (anti-piracy laws) and rescue enemy crew of the sunken vessel. Both these things went away when submarines started seeing combat because they defeat the purpose of a submarine. Being able to sink enemy ships undetected kind of made the laws moot to begin with since subs eventually could attack without surfacing.
In the Lanconia attack, my understanding is that while they of course didn’t broadcast their intention to attack, post-attack the attacking submarine surfaced for the rescue operation, broadcast their location on open radio, and was joined by other submarines in the rescue operation.