ATTEMPTS TG SABOTAGE NEW SLOOP
Received Friday, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, May 8. Two deliberate attempts were made at sabotage in the engineroom of the sloop H.M.S. Snipe one month after she was completed in September, 1946, said the prosecuting officer in a naval court-martia] at Devon. The engine offlcer, whc failed to report the discovery of a substjmce like bath-brick ih the engine bearings, was severely reprimanded. The prosecutor said that negligence prejudiced the investigators chances of bringing the saboteur tc book.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1947, Page 5
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