SUBMARINE VICTIMS

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 6

SUBMARINE VICTIMS

QUESTION OF TRANSFERRING BODIES STATEMENT BY SOVIET. Frcss Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. MOSCOW, August 22. (.Received August 23, at 9.55 a.m.) It is officially stated, in reply to the British report that the Soviet has not replied to the British Government's request for permission to remove the bodies from L 55 to England for burial, that “ expecting that the British Government -would wish to transfer to the Motherland the L 55 bodies the Soviet authorities from the very beginning took appropriate measures and were careful to preserve tho personal belongings of the victims in order to hand them over to the relatives.”— Australian Press Association-United Service. OBJECTION TO WARSHIP. MOSCOW, August 22. (Received August 23, at 10.45 a.m.) The British Government has inquired through the Norwegian Mission the possibility of sending a warship to transfer, the L 55 bodies to England. Tho Norkcgian Government was informed that tho Soviet did not object to the arrival of a warship belmiging to a friendly nation or a British merchantman, but it could not consent to a. British warship entering Soviet territorial waters.—Australian Press Association.