The Archive · 1939

Seriously Damaged

Portsmouth, July 1 The American submarine Squalus was less seriously damaged than feared when she broke loose from salvage cables last week and settled back to the ocean floor near here, two exploratory divers reported last night. The fall had no effect on the bow of the undersea craft or the compartments.

Twenty-six bodies still remain aboard, the ill-fated craft from which 33 men escaped in one pf. the. worst tory last month.—United Press, German Envoy in Moscow met To Return to Berlin Berlin, July 19. The German Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich von der Schulenburg, who recently returned to his post following a long sojourn in the Reich, will visit Berlin in the near future, probably during the course of next week, it was declared in informed circles here yesterday. Whether the journey of the Ambassador bears any connection with the reported German-Soviet Russian economic negotiations could not be learned.—Trans-Ocean, R. A. F. Bomber Crashes In Lincolnshire

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