“WARNED" BY THE DEAD

Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 9

“WARNED" BY THE DEAD

SEEN THROUGH TELESCOPE STRANGE NAVAL WAR STORY. A strange story of a British submarine being saved by a dead man’s warning was told at the Duchess Theatre, in London, on February 28. After Mr Clifford Bax, the author of ; The Rose Without a Thorn,’ the play then running at the theatre, had spoken on ‘ Why I am a Buddhist,’ a man in the stalls asked whether Buddhism could explain an incident that he related. “ During the war,” he said, “ a submarine sent on listening patrol to the German coast did not return when expected, and was written off as lost. “ Six months later the second in command of another submarine, at the same spot, was looking through the periscope when he saw the officer commanding the submarine which did not return waving his arms from the surface of the sea. The officer at the periscope shouted: ‘ There’s M'Grath!’ They rose to the surface to go to his rescue, and a.s they advanced slowly on the surface they found they were making straight for a mine. Had they not received the warning the submarine would have been blown up.” The man said that he had been in the Navy and had been told of the incident by an officer high in command in the submarine service.