Plymouth, England. Jan. 31.—(AP)—British conservatism went by the boards when the storm-battered United States liner President Roosevelt entered Plymouth Sound at 10 o’clock this morning carrying 25 members of the crew of the British freighter Antinoe, whose lives the Americans saved after a four days’ battle in mid-ocean.

The whistle and sirens of hundreds of ships and factories greeted the men whose valor transcended national lines and has focused the eyes of the world on Captain Fried and his gallant crew. Their work of mercy succeeded, though it cost the lives of two gallant rescuers.

“Well done,” was the signal hoisted on two tenders which steamed out to meet the Roosevelt coming in with empty davits, indicating the position of the lifeboats which had been battered to pieces in the cruel sea through which the Roosevelt‘s men sought to reach the Antinoe crew clinging to the sinking freighter.