FRENCH SUBMARINE DISASTER.
London, May 28
King George sent President Fallieres liis sympathy at the disaster to the Pluviose. One diver affirms that he heard someone knocking and he believes the crew is within the watertight compartment, in which there is air sufficient for thirty hours, but this statement was afterwardsempbatically denied. The newspapers are publishing the full text from the Japanese newspapers of the letter written by the lieutenant of a Japanese submarine which sank during the manoeuvres recently. There were 27 victims altogether, including Commandant Pratt and two other officers. The latest descents of divers failed to locate the Pluviose owing to the strong current. The Pluviose collided with the South .Eastern Railway Company’s steamer Pas de Calais in the The submarine sank, and the crew, consisting of twentyfive officers and men, were drowned.
SIMILAR TRAGEDY NARROWLY AVERTED. London, May 29. The submarine Circe, off Toulon, when rising to the surface, narrowly escaped being cut in halves by the Guardship, Admiral TrehonarU
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 846, 31 May 1910, Page 3
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164FRENCH SUBMARINE DISASTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 846, 31 May 1910, Page 3
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