Show I Suffocating Men In Wrecked Sub T Tell ell of Creeping Death on Phone i Eighteen Japanese Sailors Suffer Terrible Agony on Ocean Floor as Divers Work Frantically to Rai Raise e Boat March 20 By A. A P. P P.- P. Graphic descriptions of the emotions of eighteen men facing a slow death from front suffocation are being received by underwater telephone from sur- sur sur-I sur trapped within the Japanese I navy submarine 43 r resting sting on the sea bottom off oft harbor ac according according according ac- ac cording to dispatches today to the I navy office olce here from the naval base Through the underwater telephone communication which has been es established established es- es it was determined that twenty four men and two officers one of ot them Commander perished when the forward compartment com corn compartment was flooded as a result of the shattering of ot the conning tower In a collision yesterday with the warship Tatsuto Two engineer officers and sixteen men still are alive and by means of the telephone vivid stories of ot their sufferings are being heard by byI rescue workers on warships standI standIng standing stand- stand I ing by b Ten divers ers were striving to attach chains by which the submarine could be pulled up with heavy winches The collision which sent seat the craft to the bottom In twenty-six twenty fathoms of ot water occurred just as the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- I marine was coming to the surface with her periscope showing i iI I |