The Archive · 1939

Ill-Fated Squalus Raised at Last and Berthed

The ill-fated American submarine Squalus, which sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has at last been raised and is here seen in dock at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Twenty-five bodies were recovered, but the 26th mysteriously disappeared, said, it was impossible for the Government to accept the demand for immediate full responsibility at the centre on a particular date, If they id so, the Lord Privy Seal continue they would be false to the pled given time after time in the most Solemn words to Moslems, other minorities and the European com: munity.

Discussing the alternative of nonce-operation, under which the Indian Congress went its own way and the British Government and" minority communities in India went theirs.

Sir Samuel Hoare said: "If it comes to. this issue, we should have no choice. The King-Emperor's government must be carried on with efldency, strength and justice

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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