SUBMERGED SUBMARINE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 5

SUBMERGED SUBMARINE

THE ENTOMBED MEN. LITTLE HOPE OF RESCUE. Pi es 5 ASsoeiation-Electric Telegraph -Copyright. XEW YORK, Monday. With the issuance of storm warnings for the section where the disaster occurred, the rescuers believe that operations will have to be suspended until better weather. The official in command of the rescue fleet said the sea was too rough for diving operations and too rough for the ship Faleom to remain at any spot.

The last communication with the imprisoned men was at 4.45 p.m., at which hour they gave themselves an hour and a quarter to live. A sister submarine, SS, standing by the spot, picked up the last hammered code message from S 4 by means of an oscillator undersea telegraphing instrument. The message asked: ‘'ls there any hope?” APPEALS POR HELP. XEW YORK, Monday. Captain Brume, commanding the force engaged in salvaging the S 4, reported to the Navy Department that signs of life were heard from inside the vessel. He said that there were responses to a diver who tapped on the torpedo room. A hole eight feet wide was found on the starboard side of the battery room. The men are believed to bo living except those in the battery room. Tangled wires prevent tapping at the control room or on other com-. partnients. A Boston Navy Yard official announced this afternoon that submarine S 3 had received a message from the survivors of the wrecked S 4 this morning appealing for oxygen and rations. The signal message was picked by oscillators and was as follows: —‘-'Oxygen bottle empty. Can you send down a couple? *lt may be possible for divers to place the oxygen bottles, soda and lime, and emergency rations in the torpedo tube.” The trapped men reported that the temperature was then 37 degrees. The commander of the control forces replied: Everything possible has been done and will be done. ’ ’ Six members of the submarine’s crew were still alive at noon on Monday. Rescue operations arc being delayed by a heavy gale. -