11 AUGUST 1928, Page 3

We offer our sympathy to Italy over the loss of

a submarine, with all hands, in the Adriatic. All that science could do to raise the vessel or to inject fresh air did not avail to save the twenty-seven lives. The Italians yield to none in their mechanical skill, which was illus- trated this week by the success of Italian divers and salvage equipment, which explored at a depth of forty fathoms a Belgian vessel which was sunk off Belle Ile during the War. The fact that the safe which was extracted and brought to the surface did not contain some diamonds, as expected, did not lessen the achieve- ment. ' * • *