NAVAL DISASTER
TWENTY-SIX LIVES LOST.
PARIS, June 8. Another serious fattfKty has he•sFalfen. "the French naw.
■ During manoeuvre© at Cherbourg *he armoured ship Saint Louis, 11,000 *tons, collided with, th© submarine Tendemaire,
The submarine was cut. in two, and 32ie twenty-six officers and men on iboard 'were drowned.
The Vendemdaire was practising atinck work at (the time of the disaster. v
• iSbe rose under the Sit. Louis' bows •and (sunk, after the collision, in 170 Jeet of wiater.
Portions of the V/endemiaire's dec's Tfose within twelve miniutes.
The warships immediately anchor«d on th© spot, but nothing further "was seen-.
Strong sea ourrentfe will impede 'sal*age work.
BOYAL SYMPATHY.
(Received Last Night, .9.5 o'clock.) s t :, t ' LONDON, June 10. ,lr:The King telegraphed President Fallieres his; profound sympathy for the victims c(f itsh© disaster. The Right Hon. Winston Ohurch--2U "telegraphed) M. Delcaese the British Navy's sympathy.
A -eat bubbling on the surface fol3owed, and the sea was covered with
COLLISION WITH A CRUISER
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10656, 11 June 1912, Page 5
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