HOPES UNFULFILLED

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1932, Page 6

HOPES UNFULFILLED

SUBMARINE NOT ■LOCATED

NOW THOUGHT TO HAVE SUNK

(United Press Association. —By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27

Contrary to hopes raised in the afternoon, the Admiralty is now definitely ol the opinion that the submarine has not been located. The general belief is that th'ei vessel sank in a. stretch of water, •with the sinister name of Dead Man’s ■Bay, owing to the number of ships wrecked there during the war.

Sweeping continues in an area about a mile square, though it is too rough for divers to descend.

The skipper of the coasting steamer, Tyneside, .who was in the vicinity yesterday, says he believes he .saw the submarine diving in a strange fashion ; it seemed “stern first.” Naval authorities are slowly coming to the conclusion that there may have been an explosion aboard, on which case, the men must have been immediately suffocated.

The serious view that the Admiralty have taken is .shown in the I act that, officers, sent to ivisit the men’s wives, itell them that they should not build on hopes'that their husbands will he found alive.