has previously dived twice in the basin. On one occasion she stayed flown for some time, but there wa no significance in that, because wf make all sorts of quiet experiments with the ballast so that when she goes out on her trials she is properly ballasted."
This statement by Mr. Johnson was only made after a strong protest against the way newspaper men had been treated at the office of the Cammell Laird firm.
Nearly 100 men, representing the newspapers of the country, and through them the people of Britain, anxious for news of the disaster. were for two days blankly refused information. "There is nothing to report," was the invariable formula "The Press Association reporter describing what happened, said last night "It was impossible to see any one in authority or penetrate further than the outer office. Newspaper men were frequently ordered off the premises.
The "Boersen Zeitung" says: "Germany's sympathy lies in the admiration which the German people have always had for, the silent heroism of the sailor, who, without fear, looks into the face of death."
The "Voelkischer Beobachter": "A chain of most unfortunate circum. stances obviously sealed the fate of the crew. The criticism in the British Press, which asks whether all possible precautions bad been taken prior to the trial cruise, appears to be comprehensible, but this is a matter which solely concerns the British authorities."
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