RUSH TO RESCUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 7

RUSH TO RESCUE.

VESSEL LOCATED?

Reported Seen By Aircraft Off Great Ormes Head.

BELIEVED IN 132 FT OF WATER,

United Tress Assoelatlon.-Copyrlffbt,

(Received 12.H0 p.m.) LUXDOX, this dav

Aircraft are reported t .» have '"•'"'■'l "'," rh«..is off (j,Tat Ormes ,1,,(|| 1- Surface .-hips am hurryim- '" I'": >|>"t, to establish coninmnicaI Mid.

It- is iiud.-i -<~..,] that l.iioys were released from the submarine and were '•I'-ci-mml from the air.

, | N ''""': NI " IS ~:1,l Ix-on received from ""' ll "'"-< l>.v the Adniiralty at > p.m. • V "~'''"'' lV - It- "a* Mated' then that cU'ry ell.,it. was I.ein- IM(H | ( . t() ),„..,,,, lh<" vessel, uhi.-l, was believed t<. have -unk in WVI leet of water. It was feared "'"(• it may have Mnirk a snhmer-ed "l'.|eet. whieh would ]>ut all electrical e.|uipment out of a.-I ion. ■\ (uj: Mud a immher of warships are Ml the spot. ' The weather l a >t ni-lit was ini.stv. S.O.S. notices weii" Hashed on the .-.Teen of riiiemas nnd (lieatres at Weyni..iilh and Portland, to re,-all men -ervinin Ihe lii-t ant i siil,marine flotilla and -isth de-trover flotilla, to their ships.

Ki'jlil de-trover- of the Trih.il <i ; i<--i'ih-d to the Mer-ev bi>t. ni-lit from I'ortliind. The lir-t mnt i -uluiiarine tlotilhi Uii- pn-piired to *;iil durin- the ni.ulil. Tlie-e nn.l the destroyer's are ■'II lit ted u il h the |(ile-t secret 'detector (le\ii-e-, ii-eil in nndeiw liter operationtor loi-tit in- craft. All the crew of the ll'cti- are titled with Davis escape appiirat us.