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Show THIRTY BODIES OF EXPLOSION VICTIMS FOUND! Sheerness, England, via London. Nov. 27. 3:55 p. m Thirty bodies; from the British battleship Bulwark were recovered from the River Thames today. The Bulwark wus tlcwu up off SQeerness yesterday. , Great throngs of men, women and children, relatives and friends of the officers and men of the Bulwark waited all day on the docks of the , harbor at Sheerness while (he bodies were being brought in .Many pitiful scenes were enacted Hundreds of the bodies probably never will be recovered re-covered unlets divers go beneath the w ater to disentangle them from the' twisted and warped frame of what waB once the flagship of the Medi- terranean fleet. An official secret Inquiry was started start-ed today to learn the cause of the (lis ester The task is a baffling one. as of those who were aboard the ship or near it at the Mime of the ex-plosion ex-plosion there is not a soul alive to tell i the story So far all its theory. The official admiralty circle still adheres I to the theory that the explosion was internal and accidental. The public j is torn with doubts and there aro heard on every side stori a tit Bpon taneous combustion of cordite or lyddite; lyd-dite; of German spies at work aboard the ship, of treachery among the crew; of the secret visit of a stealthy i submarine all are theories Thero is none to tell how the Bulwark was i sunk. The mystery Witt outlive, i: is believed, the mystery of the sinking oi the Maine. |