SUBMARINE SUNK

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUNK

COLLIDES WITH WARSHIP. Reuter’s Telegram. TOKIO, March 19. Submarine 43, with a crew of 4 officers and 40 men, suddenly sank a hundred miles outside the harbour of Sasebo, while undergoing a speed test, as the result of a collision with the warship Tatsuta.

CREW MISSING LITTLE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL. NAVAL DIRIGIBLE LOST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 20, 6.6 p.m.) TOKIO, March 19. Regarding the disaster to Submarine 43 the Navy Office, during subsequent attempts at rescue, stated that there is little hope of finding survivors. This marks the loss of the second submarine since last August, when one sank off Kobe. Naval circles were further depressed when half an hour after the submarine sank they were informed that a naval dirigible had caught fire while aloft and fallen in the Ibaraki prefecture, north-east of Tokio, killing the crew of fiv®. The commander’s body was the only one found. The remainder probably leaped from the biasing airship before it plunged into a forest. The dirigible was of the S.S. type, iipported from Holland three or four years ago. 9he suddenly took fire, due to an explosion. The dirigible was 51 metres long.