HEROIC JAPANESE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 April 1910, Page 3

HEROIC JAPANESE.

• « ,"N. A METHODICAL LIEUTENANT. |>Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] LI'RR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TOKIO, April 21. A document has been discovered in the Japanese submarine, which failed to rise and was recovered with all dead aboard. The document was written by the lieutenant commanding. _ It details the accident, And describes the cause, and the steps taken to endeavour to raise the boa.t. ft expresses regret at losing the .submarine and the lives of the officer and crew, whose heroism and worth is describe:] in terms of the highest praise. The document ends •avlien the writer of the statement reaches such a stage of asphyxiation that he had the grentest difficulty in breathing, and his concluding sentences pray the Emperor to succour the families of the officers and men who were perishing about him. or had already died.