The diver~who established communication with the survivors of the S-4 is named Eady. He descend ed at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, located the submarine after 20 minutes and inspected the wreck for an hour, He said that there) was a hole torn in the hull larger than the hole torn in the 8-51 which) was sunk off Block Island in September, 1925, the hole is under the conning-tower.
Eady's tappings were answered from the torpedo-compartment. The following messages were exchanged by knocks with hammer:
Dec. 20.
"Time is nearly up. We used our last bottle of oxygen.
This mes ge, hammered. on the side of the sunken submarine S-4, has driven the helpless rescuers afloat almost frantic, for, the. tur-bu lent seas not only make diving very" risky, but prevent effective measures for getting air and food, by means of tubes to the doomed survivors, Faint tapings only now fre heard, indicating that the un~ fortunate men are nearly exhaust
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