Submarine Missing.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 2

Submarine Missing.

AUSTRALIAN VESSEL LEAVES NO TRACE. STARTINGLY MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR (Press Extraordinary.) Sydney, Sep. 19. Admiral Patey sent a wireless message to Senator Pearce, Minister lor Defence, that Submarine A.E.I is missing. She was last seen on the afternoon of September 14 (Monday) returning after a patrol. There was no enemy in the vicinity, though a search did not disclose any wreckage. It is supposed her disappearance is due to an accident. / There were 35 officers and men aboard.

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Sydney, September 20

The submarine’s crew consisted of: Lieutenant-Commander E. F. Besant, Lieutenant L. Scarlette, Petty Officers Smail, Hodge, Tripe, Guilbert, Stretch, Maloney, Wright, and Waddylovo; Seamen Corbould, Reardon, Woodland, Jarman, Thomas, Fisher, Dennis, Hodgkins; Signalman Danes; Telegraphist Baker; Artificers P. Lowe, Masland, Wilson, Fitto, Messenger; Stokers Barton, Meek, Guy, Wilson, Bray, Blake, Holt, Guild, Gough. Reardon and Woodland are both New Zealanders.

Mr Pearce, in a statement, deplores the submarine disaster, and adds that the only gleam of consolation for tho loss was that it was not due to the action of the enemy. But the officers and men had just as truly given itheir services to tho Empire as if they had been thus killed. The official list gives thirty-four aboard. There is some doubt as to whether Lieutenant M6'oro was also aboard. His name was included, but a telegram from Melbourne states that he had been replaced by Scarlette. Nineteen, including Besant and Scarletto, were lent by the Admiralty to the Australian navy. Reardon’s next of kin is given as Mrs Reardon, of tho post office, Kaikoura. One paper states that Woodland is a son of Mrs Emma Hella Woodland, of the South Island, New Zealand; others say he hails from Bagnor, England.