SUNKEN SUBMARINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5

SUNKEN SUBMARINE.

MUST BE FOUND. ALLEGATIONS OF NEGLIGENCE. GERMAN CRITICISM. [(Keceived 10 a-m.) LONDON, January 19. la .connection with the loss of the-sub-marine A 7, which sank in Whitesand Bay, near Plymouth, resulting in the loss of 11 lives, Italy, has offered the British. Admiralty the use of an Italian J submarine now lying at Plymouth. The King has sent a message saying" that he is deeply grieved at the loss of valuable lives, and expressing his sympathy with the relatives. The Admiralty has ordered that the submarine must be found. Twelve torpedo boat destroyers are at work, with nine divers, speeding over the bed of the sea and employing torpedo-finding hawsers. Ten square miles of ground were covered on Monday. It is feared in some quarters that the quicksands in Whitesand Bay have swallowed up the submarine. Naval experts complain that the tender accompanying! the submarine, not being fitted with wireless, was unable to summon help immediately. They also complain of the - absence of lifting ships similar to those in use In the German and French, navies. BERLIN, January 19. Naval experts here consider that the British. Admiralty's criminal negligence was responsible for the submarine disaster. Some of the newspapers describe the "A" class as coffin ships. SAID TO BE SAFE. (Received 2 p.m.) . To-day search for the missing submarine again failed. The "Evening News," purporting to give an official's view, says the "A" class of sμbmarines are non-dangerous, and that the men share this view. Owing the depth of water (17 fathomsJ .it is impossible for any apparatus to raise the submarine. Within twenty-four hours, if the men were asphyxiated, the submarine should have risen automatically. If embedded in the sand, she has sufficient power to release herself.