OCR Text |
Show CONVOY IS SUNK BY IRE DEUTSCHLAND UNDERSEA LINER RETURNS TO PORT AFTER RAMMING TUG, WHICH GOES TO BOTTOM. Accident Caused by Swift Currents and Darkness Which Was To Be Medium of Safety, Submarine Being Slightly Damaged. New London, Conn. Five lives were lost when the German submarine Deutschland, which left port early Friday for Bremen, rammed and sent to the bottom with its crew of five the tug T. A. Scott, Jr., one of its two convoying tugs. After the accident the Deutschland returned to port. The collision was the subject of federal investigation Friday afterioon. The United States inspectors of steam vessels, headed by Captain W. E. Withey, heard through witnessos ol the conditions under which the submarine, sub-marine, slipping out of the harbor in the darkness so that she might submerge sub-merge in neutral waters beforo daybreak, day-break, ran down the tug which was acting as her protector off Racenck, just outside this port. The testimony came from Captain Paul Koenig ol the Deutschland; from F. W. Krapohl, his chief officer, and from Hans Kleese, his chief engineer. It ws given in secret, but it became known through statements outside the chamber cham-ber that the collision was an accident. |