The currents, he said, were very strong, ind the divers were forced into almost a horizontal position.
Asked why a hole was not cut in the tail of the submarine, which at tone time was protruding out of the Water, Mr, Johnson declared that this "would only have endangered the ship.
He added that they could have cut fa hole there, but that they would have been unable to get anyone through.
Asked why an alr-line was not con neeted to the submarine, Mr. Johnson said the divers could not yet near {o the air connections.
He stated that one of the survivors had told him that he did not think hho could have lived for another half-our if he had remained in the subhorizontal of "camels," be towed to position with the aid fatter which she will st shallow water, probably. the where she will be beached, marine.
Messrs. Cammell, Laird's, he went on, would give financial assistance to the dependents of those of its ployees who perished in the sub-
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Now Full of Water present, he continued, attempts: were being made to raise' the ship slowly, and she would gradually be towed 'a short distance, and beached.
Mr. Johnson advanced the opi that the submarine was now full of water, He revealed that when the first two men Were rescued, they came up through the escape hatch.
Four others tried to follow, but for some reason as yet unknown they were taken back into the submarine. They were dead, he declared Meet Hitler's Condolences Naval Enquiry:
Berlin, June 4 the condolences of the Germ: people and of himself personally wer the ment in The investigations, it is lo certain to be private, but peeled that the finding will be issued Inter by the Admiralty. The enquiry.
stated, will not begin until the salvage work has been completed Reuter.
New York, June 3.
"It must sill our sailors with regret that we ar away, fof 9 hight not the submarine rescue shi icon hive accomplished if she had York Times" in the disaster to the otis. The Tale
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