"WARNED" BY THE DEAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

"WARNED" BY THE DEAD.

SEEN THROUGH PERISCOPE. 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 23. After Mr. Clifford Bax, the author of "The Rose Without a 'I horn," the play then running at the theatre, had spoken on " Why I am a Buddhist." a man in stalls asked whether Buddhism could explain an incident that he related : " During the war," he said, " a sub marine 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 oflicer at the periscope shouted, ' There's McGrath ! ' They rose to the surface to go to his rescue, and as 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 bc?n in the Navy, and had been told of the incident by an officer high in command in the submarine service.