'A passage at arms occurred between the Attorney-General and a witness during the testimony of the salvage expert Mr. Cox, who had worked on the raising of the German warships at Scapa Flow.
'Mr, Cox asserted that if salvage men with experience had compressed air on the spot, it would have been easy {0 drill hoes in the stern of the Thetis, to connect them to an alr compressor' and to force alr into the submarine, When the stern was on the surface, Mr. Cox contended, It should have been left alone. The stern would have stayed up for days, under favourable weather conditions. "We had ships at Scapa Flow standing with one end up for months." he declared.
An Unjustifable Phrase.
Wien the Atiorney-General told Mr. Cox that the forward hatch of the Thetis was not fitted with fastening clips, Mr. Cox said he was staggered. His "plan of salvaging the submarine, he added, would not have worked "in view of the terrible diselosur The Attorney-General interposed jand said that Mr. Cox was" not entitled to make observations of that sort, "A phrase like terrible disclosure!" he added, "is mot justified and does Jo. certain' amount of harm to uninstructed. peopl A thrilling account of how locked himself for 14% hours ina. ight steel chamber representing th Japan Knows She is His Majesty's Service), it was not telephoned to Fort Blockhouse, but sent by messenger. All messengers were out at the time, and the message reached its destination only between 615 and 6.20 p.m-—Havas.
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