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Show iGLOOM JN PARIS OVER CONtlNUE&v SILENCE ON SUBMARINE BOHT LRTIN PARIS, Pet 17. A feeling of gloom prevail at the Ministry of Marine here on account of the disappearance of the French submarine boat Luting which left Bizerta, Tunis, yesterday morning, for. plunging experiments, having on board a crew of fourteen men commanded com-manded by Lieut. Phoepon and which was reported last night to have disappeared. disap-peared. Hope of Rescue. The principal hope of floating the Lutin in time to save the fives of the imprisoned men seems to Test in the assistance of the Danish salvage steamer Berger Wilhelm, which happened hap-pened to be off Cape Farina, and was immediately summoned to aid in raising the Lutin. The Danish vessel possesses machinery machin-ery capable of lifting 1500 tons, but the submarine boat lies in thirty fathoms fath-oms of water, and it is pointed out that the submarine boat Farfadet, which sank last summer, in the same vicinity but in only ten fathoms of water, was nine days at the bottom, aid when she was refloated all her crew were dead. Acts With Promptness. Marine Minister Thomson has acted with the greatest promptness. After consulting with several n?val officers he conceived the" plan of trying to get heavy chains from the forts at Bizerta under the hull of the Lutin and thus lift beT from the bottom. .. But it is feared that the tugs and other vessels on the spot may not be equal to the task, and the Marina Minister Min-ister therefore has ordered two powerful power-ful salvage vessels," the Polvpheme and the Dromedaira, to start immediately from Toulon to the scene of the disaster disas-ter and assist the salvagers already on the spot. No Nsws From Valletta, Although no news has been received from Vallette, it is assumed that the British 'admiralty officers and the Governor Gov-ernor of Malta have responded to the appeal for assistance sent from Bizerta yesterday at the instance of the British Consul-General at that port, who suggested sug-gested that the French resident general telegraph to Malta for salvage assistance. assist-ance. Had Two Engineers It became" known today that the Lutin Lu-tin had on board supplementary engineers en-gineers who had been detailed to watch the diving experiments, but it is not definitely Known whether they are included in-cluded in the fourteen men which, it wss announced at Bizerta last night, went down in the submarine boat under the command of Lieut. Phoepon. |