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June 20, 1939.
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Thetis Crew-Talked Of CAPT. ORAM TOOK
Sport-No Panic
LIVERPOOL. Be could hear his friends moving)
about, but it was dark. There were many afraid of the gas
LYING in a cabin of the
danger.
At first, according to Mr. Shaw, they did not complain. They kept up running commentary and talked about sport.
tug Grebe Cock coming down the Mersey from the sunken submarine Thetis, Mr. Frank Shaw, last to be rescued, said:Only the three who died gave way.
The nerve strain was too great for} "There is little hope for
them. 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.
He had been gassed, and was
apparently one
thef of- strongest of the men trapped | in various compartments of the Thetis.
IT WAS AWFUL'
To Mr. Arthur Mawson, second engi- neer of the Grebe Cock, Mr. Shaw sald, "I was awful last night.
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While a destroyer was circling in the
on June 2. five or bay early feat of the submarine showed above
the water for a few minutes.
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1,000 TO 1 CHANCE
CAPTAIN H. P. K. ORAM, senior officer of the 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 where she sank.
The Thetis had been under thef water twenty hours, but the crew did not know if salvage vessels had to and out if help was near that any idea of where she lay. It was Captain Oram offered to use the Minutes later more of the vessel ap-Davis safety apparatus,
peared. Men of the Vigilant go! a steel rope around it, but the Thells gradually went down.
Mr. Shaw says: "There is Httle hope
of the others coming out alive."
Naval
given #hot
No such signal had been when Captain Oram With through the hutchway. The Arat detonator was being ex- ploded from the destroyer Brazen as Captain Oram was geen.
Messages On Wrist regulations require rescuers
of a disabled submerged submaring to drop twelve detonators in the uren to signal to the men below that it in safe to use their escape gear.
King Gives Letters To
British Museum
A LETTER written by Dr. William Dodd, at one time chap- Two nen tried to escape through lain to George the Third, on June 26, 1777, the day before he was- the conning lower. They were both hanged for forgery, is now to be seen at the British Museum, druwned. "Another mun lost his It is one of 15 documents from the Royal Library at Windsor He went mad, and died which the King has presented. They are of various periods and
ICANON, also.
**When 1 left, the Kan was getting some throw interesting side-)
worst. Men were lying sprawled lights on English history. In compartments. It seemed as if they were doomed to die, but there was no punic,"
Mr. Mawson, with others in the tug, left Cammell Laird's yard with the
ed private letters of the family, with autograph poems by D. C. Rossetti Included is a contemporary copy of and others, and humorous. sketches of the Act of Attainder of Henry VI, and the circle by Rossetti and Burnei his adherents, passed in the Parlia-Jones. ment of Edward IV., and a certified copy of the printed Privy Council
Of the treasures now received from letter to Edmund Bonner, Bishop of the late Sir Robert Mond's collection
Messages from the men below were tled to his wrist.
Captain Oram reported that con- ditions below were not good," that the nie was becoming foul.
Before he climbed to the escape chamber, he left instructions that after a reasonable are the men left behind were to escape in pairs if possible.
Each pair, he suggested, should be made up of one man of the sub-| marine's crew and one of Cummeil, Laird's experts..
Three inen did follow.
EMPIRE NEWS
S. AFRICAN TRADE WITH BRITAIN
CAPE TOWN.
Mr. Pirow, Minister of Commerce und Industries, was questioned h the House of Assembly on the post- tion of South Afrien's trade relations with Britain.
to
"During the period April 1, 1937; March 31, 1038," he said, "Britain granted about £2,374,000 in customs preferences on South African pro-
calendur ducts. During the 1938, South Africa granted year 377,077 in customs preferences an £1.- Brilish goods."
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 Briush, he replied:
The preferences granted by the Union to Bellain effectively protect the relative British products against competition from other countries, and I desire no more from the con- cessions granted to Union products, in Great Britain.
"Aurordingly 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 When hours passed, and no other about as a result of quolas or by survivor come, it was assumed there means of other measures is a matter had been some mishap to two men which must be decided by the British while actually-in the hatch, and that Government. they had cut off escape for the INDIA
others.
It was learned later why nt- tempts to cut into the hull of the submarine failed when the stern was out of the water.
Work with oxy-acetylene, flame
ONE KILLED IN MOSLEM CLASH
BOMBAY.
One person was killed and one
could only have been attempted a seriously injured in a clash which the steering frame right aft.
Then
Thetis on the Thursday morning: ndun, In 1551, announcing the preg-j of Egyptian antiquities the trustees the bulkhead would still have barred occurred between persons taking.part
Out in Liverpool Bay à lieutenurit and a signaller were perched on the tug's bow.. The Thetis was a mile away.
A signal passed between
the sub-t marine commander and the lieu-: 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 Heutenant was
alarmed, and instructed the sig maller to Ang messages to another vessel.
While
the Grebe Cock moved around, destroyers were racing to Liverpool Bay..
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Below, in the Thetis, the men all splt up into separate compart- ments, remained cool. But, ng the hours passed, the
became Kas worse,
In another five or ten minutes he
would have been overcome by gas
and too weak to escape.
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naney of Queen Mary and directing state: the Te Deum to be sung in all the eburches of his diocese.
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the Museum's richest acquisition in this field in living memory, alls gaps in every class of Egyptian art."
entry.
in a procession and a large crowd Congress leader, at Bhaunegar, in the receiving Mr Vallabhbhai Patel, the peninsula of Kathiwar, Gulf of Cam- bay, recently.
At the angle of 80 deg. at which the submarine was tilted, any hole in the bulkhead would have meant immediate loss of air and much of MORRIS PAPERS
the submarine's remaining buoyancy, Mr. Patel, who had flown from The late Miss May Morris has given)
At most, they could only hope, by Bombay to preside at a conference at papers of her famous father, William
Bhounagar, was being escorted by Morris, with much from the other highly among these gifts a limestone cutting the hull; to rescue the one the members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, head of an official, bronze axe-head of or two men who might possibly have occasion, which clashed with as well as Morria's Socialist adher- the Syrian type, and a model nest of been working, aft when
coffins, all of the Eighteenth Dynasty. | murine dived.
ents.
Many of Morris's poems and drafts pruse romances are present, as well as "The Scribbler," the Morris family magazine.
In accordance with Miss Morris's wishes Dr. Robert Steele has present-
Police To Grow
Beards
BUTTE, Mont,
The Museum authorities value
the sub-
Croydon Schoolmaster
Commits Suicide
of
Stanley Ronald Kershaw Gurner, £1,800-a-year head Whitgift School, Croydon, wrote a sensational war book nine years ago in which the hero was a war-weary and cemented man who longed to commit suicide.
The
the
near a mosque. procession was abandoned and police arrested 100
Moslems.
The was followed by the closing of
shops.
Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Bose-Cor- respondence between Mr. Gondul and Mr. Subhas Bose. former Congress President, now published, reveals the clash of ideals in Congress. Mr. Gandhi, referring 10 Mr Bose's formula for an ultimatum to the Bullish Government, states that the Congress cannot "deliver the goods," and adds: " smell violence in the nlr I breathe."
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Recently Mr. Gurner was found was made to his financial position. The city's police are going into dead in a Paddington boarding-house. A friend said.recently: "I have UNEMPLOYED REFUSE hiding. Mayor Charles Hauswirth An empty bottle lay on the floor be- reason to believe that although Mr. has ordered them to grow beards side his bed, and it is believed that Gurner was earning £1,800 a year until July 4, when the state's jubilee he died from polson.
he had Anancial worrles. will be celebrated with a pioneer
In the Grebe Cock he coughed, and his eyes watered as he töld of the scene in the submarine fathoms į festival that requires all officers of Mr. Gurner had been depressed
I recently, and
down.
the law to have whiskers.
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"Recently, he had been making several trips to London, but he did not always reveal the nature of his visits.
"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.
Mr. Francis Allen, chairman of the board of governors of Whitgift School, said: "Mr. Gurner was a very brilliant man in many ways and his! death is a severe blow to the school, which has 750 scholars. Whatever the causes of his death, I know that they are not connected in any way with his work nl school, although the there were certain matters which I had become rather worried about lately. Wh
What those matters were prefer not to discuss."
Mr. Gummer's book, in which the hera longed
end ma
life, was called "Pass Guard at Ypres." It
was based
WORK
KINGSTON. Unemployed workers here have rejected on offer by the Government to provide them with relief work on the reclamation of swamps near Kingston.
They have declared that the rate of la. d. a day offered to them is too small,
although
the Governor. Sir Arthur Richards, made it pisin that this was only a relief mensure to prevent the men from suffering.
Only 20 unemployed registered us the offer. The willing to accept cided not to proceed with the work Government hús, în consequence, de-
for the time being. SOUTHERN RHODESIA
SCOPE OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION
SALISBURY.
An important fact revented by the census of industries, now nearing ratio of completion, concerns the European to native employment.
In mining it is about 1 in 22, and on his own experiences at Ypres and in agriculture about 1 in 20, but in Arrus..
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during the two years he was secondary industries it is about 1 in
with the Rifle Brigade during the 17.
war. He
In some speclfc Industries the ratto
throughout the war, served was wounded, and won the M.C. of Europeans is much greater. For "All is truc," he shld of his book, Instance,. In the paper, printing and which offended ex-Service men by its allled trades it is 20-0. suggestion that rum was the only The implication is that for a given thing which would get terror-stricken native labour force there is far men out of their shell-holes.
greater scope for European Immigra He was also the author of several tion in the secondary Industries thon other books on educational subjects. In mining or farming.
Mr. Gurner, who was 49, was mar- ried and has one ton. He lived in Beechwood-road, Sanderstead, Surrey. He began his career as assistant master at Haileybury and had served at Clifton, Marlborough, the Strand School, Tulse Hill, and the Edward VII. School in Sheffield before taking up his Croydon appointment 11 years
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