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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1925.
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
SUBMARINE STRUCK IN COLLISION.
New York, Sept. 26. The submarine S61 has beco sunk as the result of a collision with the steamer, City of Rome, twenty miles east of Block Island."; Thirty-seven of the submarine's crew are reported drowned. The atentner rescued three.
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The fate of the crew of the S51 is still uncertain, though Navy officials are of the opinion that it is possible the bulkheads are holding In parts of the vessel and some of the crew are alive. On the con trary, a radio received at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a destroyer at the spot where the submarine is lying at a depth of crew have been unes cepsful, hat attempts to communicate with the
unsuccessful
Holed on Her Port Side.
The submarine, which is resting on ber keel, inclined to port, has à large hole on her port sido abaft the conning tower.
The destroyer Putnam left Newport at six this morning for the scenu and wirelessed having, discovered a buoy made up of life. preservers, which is believed to have been floated up by the imprison ed crew.
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Meanwhile, the Navy Department is rushing all kinds of craft to the spot, including a salvage ship and three submarines with divers and listening devices; also a Navy seaplane which will en circle the area and endeavour to ascertain the submarine's exact location on the ocean bed.
Lira, one of the survivors said that the first thing they heard after the crash was Commander Ligutenant Radhey-Dobson calling to quarters. They rushed on deck and got out of the conning tower. somehow. The submarine was running well submerged and went down almost immediately. The last thing they heard was the com mander shouting to the City. of Rome "Please throw us a line. Lira added that two of those rescued were entangled in the wireless antennae and were carried down as the boat sank, he dived deep and came up astern of the steamer where he drifted for, forty-five minutes before being picked up.-Reuters American Service.
Boston, Sept. 27,
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The three rescued men from the submarine arrived by the City of Rome. They say they were in their banks when the crash- came, bat being near the conning tower were floated out through the opening to the, ocean surface. They think their comrades wore suffocated by chlorine gas released by the collision. One vivor safd.that the four on watch in the conning tower should have come to the surface, but were probably dragged under by suction.
The Captain of the City of Rome, which is an American coaster, said he sounded the whistle as soon as he saw the submarine's only light, but was unable to avoid the collision. His ship hit the sub- marine, which was going at full speed, about halfway between the sters and the conning tower. He threw over lighted ringbuoys, and a boat was lowered in a few minutes, but the searchlight failed owing to having burnt out.-Reiter's American Service.
FRANCE'S DEBT TO AMERICA.
Washington, Sept. 26.
The joint session of the Franco-American debt funding commis- aloners only lasted twenty minutes, the Americans indicating that they considered the French proposals inadequate and unsatisfactory...
The Americans handed over data, which the French spent the afternoon examining and preparing a further proptsal for presenta- tion at next session,
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Although the members of the American commission are not at all optimiste, it is understood that the majority feel that consider. able progress has been made towards reconciliation of the divergent · Franco-American views.--Reuter's Américan Service.
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Paris, September 27. The Journal publishes a report "from Washington that, M. Call- laux has telegraphically Informed M. Painleve on the state of the debt negotiations and the concessions he reckoned on making. He stated that the American counter proposals claimed maximum annuities of $129,0000,000 compared with the 80,000,000 contemplated by M. Caillauxi
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The Le Matin publishes a report for the same capital stating that the Americans presented a totally unexpected claim. for the payment of interest on $245,000,000 which the United States treasury advanced to the Bank of France which it demanded should not be regarded as a political loan but i commercial loan, similar to the Bank of England's credit to the Bank of France.-Reuter.
FRENCH AVIATION.
Paris, Sept. 26.
The aviators Tarascon and Favreau, who started at noon yester day upon an attempt to break Droughin Landry's long distance re- cord light, crushed at Dreux to-day."
Both aviators were seriously injured, and their machine, which was specially built for their proposed flight from Paris to New York, was wrecked.
Later.
It is officially stated that Tarascon and Favreau were only slightly injured.
The accident occurred at 3.80 in the morning, during a storm which necessitated a forced landing. Flames burst out as the ma- chine grounded..
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Watchers at Elampes saw the machine pass thirteen times, equivalent to 1950 kilometres, when it failed to reappear and search parties were sent out.-Reuter.
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Flight-Lieutenant Thored, piloting a seaplane weighing a 'ton, accomplished a flight with engine stopped lasting 213 minutes. Renter
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