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...offer you at once welcome and bon vonaae. May favoring breezes and kindly seas make your homeward journey pleasant and may you always remember that, however difficult the public business upon which you have been engaged, you went out to your ship from the Lotus Club amid the cheers and good wishes of sincere and affectionate friends of France...
...said that this statement was based on his personal opinion. He testified that in his opinion there were unmistakable danger signs in the air, that Commander Lansdowne made an error in judgment in not steering around the storm, and that the destruction of the ship was caused by the bursting of gas cells because a number of safety valves had been removed (all points that the survivors of the disaster deny). Lieutenant Rosendahl, one of the survivors, questioned...
Lieutenant Anderson, aerologist of the Shenandoah, had told that he had advised Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne to change the course of the ship shortly before the accident occurred, but that Commander Lansdowne had demanded reasons for doing so and that he was unable to point out any definite danger signs...
After the submarine had been at the bottom 113 hours (72 hours is supposed to be the safety limit for men within such a ship), Rear Admiral Christy announced: "Reluctantly and sorrowfully we must all concede that there is no longer a possibility of human life existing in the flf-61." He asked to be allowed to give up attempts at rescue and begin salvage operations. Secretary Wilbur nonetheless directed that the rescue work continue...
Meantime, wondering what fates were befalling their husbands, the great hunter's daughters-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Jr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, distributed their eight children among three grandmothers, and set sail for Europe, whence by ship, rail and motor and with a special guide they will follow their husbands' trail into Kashmir. There, a happy rendezvous; then perhaps a joint hunt for museum specimens of the long-haired tiger...