Suspicion
Sirs:
Your report on "Babes in the Sea" in the Sept. 30 issue strikes me as a considerable departure from your usual editorial objectivity. Apparently you have accepted the British story whole cloth, without any examination of the details.
First an explosion "threw the vessel violently on its beams"something like a car being tipped over on its sides; your nautical editor take note"next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room." Whence the torpedoes, TIME? Did anyone see them? Or are they just part of the British report?
They will bear looking into. First, it...
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