1939-07-05 — Page 28

EVIDENCE ON THETIS TRAGEDY BY "ONLY MAN WHO KNOWS"

London, To-day.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, occupied a seat on the bench yesterday after-

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noon when Lt. Woods, one of the survivors and STOP PRESS "the only man who knows what happened” as

the Thetis went down, gave evidence when the inquiry was resumed.

Lt. Woods said that when water rushed in through the torpedo tubes, "some time was wasted in closing the water-tight door.

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That was because he went to the Lt. Woods volunteered, and just assistance of a seaman who was before they closed the door of the being swept from his feet, and Lt. escape chamber they heard charges Woods had to assist him out of the fired, and presumed there was a compartment before closing the warship in the vicinity. water-tight door.

Lt. Woods said he felt so posi- tive that the bow caps were shut that he considered there must have been a fracture of the tube.

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CREW CHEERED "These charges raised a cheer from the side compartment,” said Lt. Woods.

They escaped without difficulty. Lt. Woods added that Leading- Had he realised, as he did soon afterwards, that the bow cap must Stoker Arnold, who followed him have been open, he might possibly to the surface, told him that as he have been able to get at the operat-looked through the scuttle of the escape chamber he thought he saw ing lever and shut it.

sparks and smoke. Reuter. DESPERATE ATTEMPTS

then British Wireless adds that Lt. Desperate attempts were

evidence described the made to get through the forward Woods' Davia

the flooding of the two forward com- escape chamber into

of the submarine through number five torpedo tube, when he was inspecting the tubes in connection with the submarine's "trim."

flooded compartments to shut apartments door, but these were frustrated.

Next morning early, Captain Oram called for volunteers to ac- company him to the surface.

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(Continued from Page 1) reasons for the hitch, and adds that opinion is fast growing in Government circles and in the House of Commons that the Soviet is deliberately delaying the nego-. tiations with the object of under- mining Mr. Chamberlain's position. If such proves true; Sir William Seeds (our Ambassador in M cow) will do some plain speaking.

Government supporters who were once keenly interested in early conclusion of the agreement, are becoming tired at the seemingly endless delay, and some M.P.'s say that any value likely to have ac- crued from the agreement is now rapidly diminishing. — Reuter,

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