SUNKEN SUBMARINE.
SIGNS OF LIFE HEARD. NEW YORK, December 18. Captain Brume',' commanding the group engaged in salvaging 84, reported to the Navy Department that signs of life were heard inside the vessel. He said there were responses to a diver tapping on the torpedo room. A hole eight feet wide was found on the starboard side of the battery room. The men are believed to be living, except those in rhe battery room, where they died in the crash. Tangled wires prevent tapping at the control room and other compartments. -* • - WILL YOU BE LONG. NEW YORK, December 1!). Communicating by means of code hammer tapping, rhe diver received a reply from the imprisoned crew, saying that six men were alive within the torpedo room. The message added: "Gas not bad. but air is. Will you be long?” There is no evidence of anyone alive in other parts of the submarine. The navy tug luka, dragging three pontoons' to the scene, lost one in heavy running seas. Waves at the spot where the disaster occurred are so high that rescue work is almost impossible. Navy men are working frantically in answer to the entombed men’s plea, "Please Hurry.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 146, 21 December 1927, Page 8
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198SUNKEN SUBMARINE. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 146, 21 December 1927, Page 8
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