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June 20, 1939.
Thetis Crew Talked Of CAPT. ORAM TOOK EMPIRE
Sport-No Panic
LIVERPOOL.
YING in a cabin of the tug Grebe Cock coming down the Mersey from the sunken submarine Thetis, Mr Frank Shaw,
He could hear his friends moving about, but it was dark. There were many, afraid of danger.
1,000 TO 1 CHANCE
CAPTAIN HI. P. K. ORAM, senior officer of the the Hus survivors of the Thetis was saved because he took a thousand-to-one chance to save the others. Admiralty expert attending the trials of the new submarine, he volunteered to become a human buoy to mark the spot
Brat, according to Mr. Shaw, they did not complain. They kept up a runnlag commentary and talked about sport,
last to be rescued, said:Only the three who died gave way. where she sank.
for
"There is little hope the other chaps." Mr. Shaw rose to the surface at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 2, by the Davis escape apparatus and was picked up semi-con- scious..
was
The nerve strain was too great for them,
six
While a destroyer was circling in the
bay early on June 2, five or feet of the submarine showed above the water for a few minutes. Minutes later more of the vessel ap- peared. Men of the Vigilant got n steel rope around it, but the Thetis gradually went down.
Mr. Shaw says: "There is little hope of the others coming out alive." ..ilie
He had been gassed, and apparently onc of strongest of the men trapped in various compartments of the Thetis..
'IT WAS AWFUL'
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NEWS
S. AFRICAN TRADE.
WITH BRITAIN
CAPE TOWN. Mr. Pirow, Minister of Cominerco
the House of Assembly on the post-
and Industries, was questioned In
on of South Africa's trade relations
with Britain:
During the period April 1, 1937, to March 31, 1038," he said, "Dritain No such signal_had been given granted about £2,374,000 in customs when Captain Oram was shot preferences on South African pro- through the hatchway.
calendar ducts. During the The first detonator was being ex- 1030. South It was
Africa granted £1.- ploded from the destroyer Brazen s 377,677 in customs preferences
British goods." Captain Oram was seen.'
The Thetis had been under the water twenty hours, but the crew did not know if salvage vessels had any idea of where she lay. to And out If help was near that Captain Oram offered to Davis safety, apparatus,
the
Naval regulations require rescuers of a disabled submerged submarine
Messages On Wrist Messages from the men Jelow were Captain Oram reported titat con- ditions below were "not good," that the nie was becoming foul.
to drop twelve detonators in the area) tied to his, wrist. to signal to the men below that. It is
afe to use their escape gear.
King Gives Letters To
British
Museum
"To Me. Arthur Mawson, second engi- neer of the Grube Cock, Mr. Shaw
A LETTER written by Dr. William Dodd, at one time chap- said, "I was awful last night. Two men tried to escape through lain to George the Third, on June 26, 1777, the day before he was the conning tower. They were both hanged for forgery, is now to be seen at the British Museum. drowned, Another man lost his It is one of 16 documents from the Royal Library at Windsor He went mad, and died which the King has presented. They are of various periods and
throw interesting side-į lights on English history.
reason.
IRD. "When 1 left, the gas
was getting some worse. Men were lying sprawled in compartments. It seemed as if they were doomed to die, but there was no panic,'
Mr. Mawson, with others in the tug, left Cammell Laird's yard with the Thetis on the Thursday morning Out in Liverpool Bay a lieutenant and a signaller were perched on the tug's bow. The Thetis was a mile away.
A signal passed between
the sub-
marine commander and the Heu- tenant on the tug.
It was one word: "Diving."
A minute later the Thetis settled down In the water, made a perfect
dive.
Three hours later the lieutenant was
alarmed, and instructed the sig naller to flag messages to another vessel.
While the Grebe Cock
moved
around, destroyers were racing to Liverpool Bay.
Below, in the Thells, the men all aplit up into separate compurt- Dut, as the
ments, remained cool. hours passed, the gas become
worse.
In another five or ten minutes he would have been overcome by gnя and too weak to escape.
In the Grebe Cock he coughed, and his eyes watered as he told of the scene in the submarine fathoms down.
et private letters of the family, with nutograph poems by D. C. Rossetti and others, and humorous sketches of the circle by Rossetti and
Burne Jones.
Included is a contemporary copy of the Act of Attainder of Henry VI, and his adherents, passed in the Parlin ment of Edward IV, and a certifed
Of the treasures now received from copy of the printed Privy Council letter to Edmund Bonner, Bishop of the late Sir Robert Mond's collection London, in 1554, announcing the preg- of Egyptian antiquitles the trustees nancy of Queen Mary and directing state: the Te Deum to be sung in all the churches of his diocese.
MORRIS PAPERS The late Miss May Morris has given papers of her famous father, Willinm much from the other Morris, with members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, as well as Morris's 'Socialist adher- ents,
Many of Morris's poems and drafts of prose romances are present, as well as "The Scribbler," the Morris family magazine.
In accordance with Miss Morrie's wishes Dr. Robert Steele has present-
Police To Grow Beards
BUTTE, Mont.'
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On
Asked whether he was prepared to grant the same quota system in res- pect of British imports into 'South Africa that he demanded in respect of South African products imported by British, he replied:
The preferences granted by the Before he climbed to the escape Union to Britain effectively protect chamber, he Jeft Instructions that the relative .Brlish products against after a reasonable lapse the men left competition from other countries, behind were to escape in pairs if and I desire no more from the con- cessions granted to Union products possible,
la Great Britain,
Each pair, he suggested, should be made up of one man of the sub- marine's crew and one of Cammell Laird's experts,
Three men did follow.
When hours passed, and no other survivor came, it was assumed there had been some mishap to two men
Accordingly all I desire is that the concessions granted to the Union should enable our producers to and a market at a reasonable price for their products. Whether this comes about as a result of quotas or by means of other measures is a matter which must be decided by the British
while actually in the hatch, and that Government"
for the they had cut off escape.
INDIA others.
was learned later why at- ONE KILLED IN tempts to cut into the hull of the
MOSLEM CLASH submarine fulled when the stern was out of the water,
Work with oxy-acetylene flame
BOMBAY. One person was killed and one
could only have been attempted on
Then seriously injured in a clash which the steering frame right aft.
in a
a procession and a large crowd the bulkhead would still have barred occurred between persons taking part entry,
At the angle of 80 deg. at which receiving Mr Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress lender, at Bhaunagar, In the "This, the
richest the submarine was tilted, any hole peninsula of Kathiwar, Gulf of Cam- Museum's acquisition in this field In
living in the bulkhead would have meant bay, recently, memory, fills gaps in every class of immediate loss of air and much of Mr. Pa Egyptian art."
the submarine's remaining buoyancy. At most, they could only hope, by highly among these gifts a limestone cutting the hull, to rescue the one head of an official, bronze axe-head of or two men who might possibly have the Syrian type, and a model nest of been working pft when comns, all of the Eighteenth Dynasty. I marine dived,
The Museum authorities value
the sub-
Croydon Schoolmaster Commits Suicide
Stanley Ronald Kershaw Gurner, £1,800-a-year head
Mr. Patel, who had flown from Bambay to preside at a conference at Bhavnagar, was being escorted by the procession, which clashed with Moslenis near, a mosque."
The procession was abandoned and
This was followed by the closing of shops.
the police arrested 100 Moslems.
Cor-
Mr. Gandhi and Mr. respondence between Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Subhas Bose, former Congress President, now published, reveals the clash of Ideals in Congress. Mr.
Mr Gandlil,
Bose's referring to formula for an ultimatum to the of British Government, states that the And adds: "I smell violence in the nir I breathe," JAMAICA
Whitgift School, Croydon, wrote a sensational war book nine Congress cannot "deliver the goods,"" years ago in which the hero was a war-weary and demented man who longed to commit suicide.
Recently Mr. Gurner was found was made to his financial position.
A friend sald recently: "I have UNEMPLOYED REFUSE dead in a Paddington boarding-house.
The city's police are going into hiding. Mayor Charles Hauswirth An empty bottle lay on the floor be- reason to believe that although Mr. bus ordered them to Krow
beords side his bed, and it is believed that Gurner was carning £1,000 a year
he had financial worries. until July 4, when the state's jubilee he died from polson. will be celebrated with a pioneer
Mr. Gurner had been depressed "Recently, he had been making festival that requires all officers of
recently, and at the inquest reference several trips to London, but he did the law to have whiskers.
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"I believe the school authorities had of late become rather perturbed and that a certain course of action was in contemplation."
Mr. Gurner left the school, saying he was going to London, but he did not disclose the reason:~
WORK
KINGSTON. Unemployed workers here have rejected an offer by the Government to provide them with relief work on the reclamation of swamps near
Kingston.
They have declared that the rate of is. dd. a day offered to them is too mall, although the Governor. Sir Arthur Richards, made it plain that this was only a relief measure to prevent the men from suffering.
Only 20 unemployed-registered-as willing to accept the offer. The Mr. Francis Allen, chairman of the Government has, in consequence, de- board of governors of Whitgift School, cided not to proceed with the work said: "Mr. Gurner was a very
brillant man in many ways and his for the time being. death is a severe blow to the school, SOUTHERN RHODESIA which has 750 scholars.
Whatever
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Mr. Gurner's book, in which the here longed to end his life, was called "Pass Guord at Ypres." It was based
SALISBURY.
An Important fact revealed by the consus of industries, now nearing completion, concerns the ratio of European to native employment.
In mining it is about 1 in 22, and
on his own experiences at Ypres and in agriculture about 1 la 20, but in Arras during the two years he was secondary Industries it is about i in
17.
with the Niño Brigade during the same specific industries the ratlo'
war. He served throughout the war,
In
For
was wounded, and won the M.C. of Europeans is much greater.
"All is true," he said of his book, fastance, In the paper, printing and which offended ex-Service men by its allied trades it is 20-9. suggestion that rum was flie. only The implication is that for a given thing which would get terror-stricken native labour force there is far greater scope for European Immigra- men out of their shell-holes.
"Boy," 75, Fears Father, 100
He was also the author of several tion in the secondary Industries than other books on educational subjects. in mining or farming.
Mr. Gurner, who was 40, was mar- ried and has one son, He lived in Beechwood-road, Sanderstead, Surrey. He began his career as assistant master at Haileybury and had served nt Clifton, Marlborough, the Strand School, Tulse Hill, and the Edward VII. School in Shefeld before taking
KITCHENER, Ont. up his Croydon appointment 11 years Slipping off the road and crashing ago as head of one of the biggest into a guard rail, James Trussler's public day schools in the country. car came to a stop, damaged.
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