Efforts to obtain a haven in Mexico for Spanish Civil war refugees were being made here yesterday by Sr. Juan Negrin, former Spanish Republican Premier, and Sr. Julio Del Vayo, former Spanish Foreign Minister, The two former Spanish officials arrived here to confer with President Lazaro Cardenas and intended to ask specifically that 300 refugees arriving in Mexico over the weekend be permitted to take up residence in this country permanently.—United Press, Squalus Salvage Work Continues Portsmouth, June 3.
Navy "divers began the task of attaching air hoses to the flooded compartments of the ill-fated submarine Squalus near here yesterday.
Navy officials said the work begun yesterday was one of the last stages of the rescue work preparatory to the raising of the disabled undersea boat in which 26 men perished.
Survivors of the Squalus disaster believed yesterday that the occupants trapped in the disabled British submarine Thetis had a "good chance to survive."—United Press.
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