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Tide Spells Doom Of Submarine

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EIGHTY DEAD IN THETIS DISASTER

Number Rescued Not Clear: Seven At Most

Stern Sinks At High Water: Hope Destroyed

London, To-day.

With an air supply in the sunken submarine Thetis estimated to last approximately to midnight last night, those in charge of the rescue opera- tions were working feverishly against time. There seems to be some doubt as to how many men have escaped from the submarine. The ori- ginal report that four had been saved has now been extended to six, though this is not con- firmed.

All Hope Now Abandoned

London, To-day,

An official of Cammell Laird announced late last night to crowds waiting at the gates of the shipyard in Birkenhead that hope has been given up for the men on board Thetis.

Women hearing the news wept. Reuter.

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Calm Before Storm

Shanghai, To-day. THE Japanese spokes- It was first reported that one of the ratings, Stoker

man in Shanghai Wilfred Hole, had died while endeavouring to yesterday said that the escape from Thetis by means of the Davis es- present lull on all fronts cape apparatus. Later it was rumoured that was the "calm before the

three men had died.

Cammell Laird., at 9.50

With the receding tide exposing | Arnold and Mr. F. Shaw, of the more of the submarine's tail, it is staff of hoped it will be possible to cut a hole in the hull through which air may be pumped.

a.m.

A MYSTERY "These two survivors reported Later the hole may be enlarged that the remainder of the crew to enable the men to crawl out. were then about to use the Davis Late in the afternoon it was not escape apparatus, and it is not denied at the Admiralty that the clear at present what has prevent- position of the entombed men gaveed further escapes by this method. cause for anxiety.

It is learned at the that the front part of Thetis is flooded and that the forward Davis escape hatch is out of action.

"Attempts have been made to cut Admiralty a hole in the stern of the sub- marine, but had to be abandoned until the tide slackens at about 6 p.m. The strong tide at. present has caused the submarine's stern to go under water."

The four men who are known to have come un used the after hatch.

RESCUE EFFORTS

As soon as the heads of the escapees bobbed above the surface, boats manned by bluejackets raced to the scene and tranferred the rescued men to a waiting destroy-

er.

Meanwhile wärships and rescue ships of all kinds continue to circle the submarine.

The fight to save the imprisoned men now seems to have become a fight against time, as with every passing minute the air supply in- side the submarine has diminished, though it is estimated there is suf- ficient to last till 1.40 a.m. on Saturday.

AIR SUPPLY?

It is not known at the Admiralty Divers who went down in the whether use of the Davis escape afternoon obtained, answers from apparatus has been deliberately the submarine's crew when they suspended to conserve the air. tapped messages in Morse.

An Admiralty official statement. issued at 6.6 last evening says: "According to the latest report, timed 4.50 p.m., no escapes have been made since those of Stoker."

supply and avoid the admission of water to the ship, or whether for some reason the crew are unable to continue to use the apparatus.

In any case it is hoped that at

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storm."

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Once again, the England-Cape-England Once air record has been broken. again, the record breaker depended on a Rolex wrist watch for navigational timing-for safety itself. Why Rolex? Because the Rolex Oyster Chronometer conforms to

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The spokesman said that all was now quiet on the Mongolian

border.

He gave Japanese losses as 125 killed and reiterated the previous fantastic Japanese claim that the Outer Mongolian forces lost 59 planes, 15 tanks and armoured

cars and guns, machine-guns and ammunition-Trans-Ocean.

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