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Show Accident to French Submarine. A serious accident took place the other day on a French submarine boat maneuvering off Cherbourg, the details of which have not been made public. The vessel is the Silure and when at the maximum depth several of the crew were seized with suffocation suffoca-tion and were In so grave a condition that the boat had to return with speed to the naval port. An investigation is being anxiously held into the cause of this unpleasant affair, which in French naval circles is said to have somewhat shaken the faith which had been reposed in these craft. This is the first accident of the kind that has occurred to a French boat. |