ITALIAN TRAGEDY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 August 1928, Page 7

ITALIAN TRAGEDY

LOSS OF SUBMARINE.

dramatic messages. CREW’S LAST WORDS. ' UniM Press Association— By Electric Tdegraj* Copyright*) (A list ralian Press Association.) ROME, Aug. 11. The bodies of the victims, of the submarine Fl 4, which sank in the Adriatic after a collision, were interred today in the presence of the whole of the armed forces at Pola. Thoi first, compete account ol tbdramatic dialogue preceding the . saiwave has now been published. A sister chip Flo. which was searching for the position set out,, repeated the messages', to which came the feeble reply from the radio telephone: “Me. hear you; come .1 leaner.” Come nearer, you are too fair to the left; turn more to. the rierht.’ Then later came: We are at an angle of 70 degrees. iYfove : fo:r" aid slowly.” . . , An hour later tins message was hi-at d. “We have dropped ail our ballast, leti us if salvage is proceeding.” Flo answered: “Yes; big pontoons, and cranes are coming from Po’a.” Later in the afternoon the following was heard: “We 24 are. safe forward; three have perished. Hurry, eM » coming.” This was followed a few minutes later by. “We are^ breathing gas and suffocating.- harry! Me .eel it is all over; viva It— ■ The last word was obviously ‘ Italia, but was not completed. _____