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Cadenasi sehereby informed that thoir ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- Goods are being landed and placed ar THEIR U in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godewas at Kowloon, where cach Coutigament will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as the

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No Claire will be admitted after tas Goods have left the Godown.

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Agenta. Fongkong, 17th March, 1926. [3331

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH, 1928

HOW £5,000,000 WAS SALVED

THE

LAURENTIC ""

GOLD.

FIRST FULL ACCOUNT.

DIVER HEAD DOWNWARDS IN THE SEA.

Mr. J. C. 2. Davidson. Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, announced in Parliament last month that the cost

of recovering the £4,034,000 from the White Star liner Laurentie, which sank in 1917 off the west coast of Ireland while being used as an auxiliary cruiser in the was only £138,000, including a War, Lonus of £1.739 to the officers and men concerned.

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The work of the divers was begun in vessel of ņ But the Laurentic. 14,000 tons, which had been acting as an Auxiliary erniser, was lost in a spot exposed to the full fury of the Atlantic, ip 20 fathoms (1201) of water.

STORMS STOP WORK.

NEW STREET NAMES IN BERLIN. REPUBLICANS AND HISTORY.

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INSTANTLY STOPS DIGESTIVE PAIN.

Borlin, saya The Times correspondent. is being reminded of the result of the autumn municipal electiona which broke

Over ninety percent of those who up the bourgeois bloc in the City Council, owing mainly to Communist successes. suffer from indigestion are really infering The majority now available for proposals from acidity and their pain results from the affects of the harmful stomach acid. To check which whole-hearted Republicans the there is nothing so effective as Bianrated can agree has turned its attention to the Magnesin, which positively gives instant relief,

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Nectors prescribe ro-naming of streets and squares.

Magnesi for stomach and City Council decided last month, by 19 Binrated votes to 81, that the Königsplatz should digestive troubles, hospitals 10 it, and who have tried it hits in be re-named "Platz dez Republik." The thousands

Hisorated this famous remedy, Praising

in Communists wanted it to be called,

Magens is obtainable from all chemists "Platz der Revolution, but their clze.

powder and tablet forms, and it is arged toral successes did not give them com.

that for their own protection, purchasers mand of the Council without allies, should look on the wrapper for the trade-mark they had to be content with a name which Bismag when buying a necessary pre- satisfied the Socialists and Democrats as caution if digestive troubles are to be medivil. well.

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REGISTER.

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The cry of iconoclasm and worse, raised by Conservatives and Monarchists, is not hard to understand. The sandy space which in 1885 received the name of King's Square developed step by For months at a time the work of the fatep with the rising fortune of the Hohen- divers was stopped by storms, and much zellerns into the kernel of that area of the treasure had to be literally which was laid out in the centre of the snatched away during a lull in the gales. capital express the glory not only ef The work was done from the Admiralty the Hohenzollern, but of the Empire. salvage vessel Racer 1,000 tons. Lieut.The gaudy Victory Column was raised in Commander E L. B. Damnot. R.N.. it and unveiled by the Emperor William himself a diver, was in charge. Comdr. 1. in September, 1973. The Siegesallee, Damant has since received the thanks with its double row of statues epitomizing Barometer of the Admiralty for his work, while the dynastie history of Prussia, begins in Temperature

The front of the gilded Reichstag Humidity several members of his crew of about 50 have been decorated. It is interesting building looks out on it: statues of the to reenil the loss of the and Oliner Emperor William I... Prince Bismarck, Egant, which sank off Ushant after Von Moltke, and Yon Roon stand 'in it. collision in May, 10. She carried gold. and silver valued at £1,054,000, attempt to recover which is probable this spring.

THE SALVAGE,

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LAURENTIC" WAS MARKD

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Comdr. Damant gave a" Daily MailState from a window overlooking it. reporter the following first full account of the salvage work:-

Diving at 120 feet is always difficult, and the wreck lay two miles from innd in a very exposed apot in the Atlantic. It was only possible to work for six months in the year.

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From March 20th to 26th, 1926. HIGH WATER.

Days of

On the other hand, it has played no very glorious part in the history of the Republic. It was the scene in the first turbulent period of several bloody en- counters which would be better left The Republic's only uncommemorated, claim on it is that Her? Scheidemar.n read the declaration of the new form of There Art still plenty of Kaiserstras. sen, Wilhelmstrassen, Friedrichs:rassen. Hohenzollernstrassen and squares simi larly named for no very strong historical M reason, which, the Monarchists suggest. might well have been chosen for Repub lican glorification. The whole preceeding There is n04 When we arst started to work, im-is regarded, even by many Republicans, mediately after it was sunk, the as petty and ridiculous. Laurentie lay on its side at an angle saying where it will stop. of 60 degrees from the vertical. Using explosives, we blew in a door in the side of the ship near the strong room

The foreman diver, Warrant Ship- wright Miller, went down a transverse passage, and eventually reached the strong-room in the middle of the ship. He unscrewed

some nuts from the hinges and bad the strong room open in a few minutes. Most of the gold then lay before him in boxes.

It was very difficult to remove thee boxes of gold, The diver had to crawl up a steeply sloping passage in pitch darkness, pushing a heavy box before him, and occasionally lifting it over obstacles.

On the first day we removed one box ned on the following day three more. Then a gale blew up from the north and lasted a week, during which pieces

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The strong group of Comaninists on the District Council of Neukolin has also made an onslaught on the street names Mon. 22 Nainferior High of their inner suburban districts. the aid of the Socialists they passed Thes. 23 m 8 26 motions to change the Kaiser Friedrich

the Wed. 24 m Strasse into Karl Marx Strasse, Lohenzollernplatz into Kari Liebknicht. Platz," the Grüner Weg into "Reichpeit Thur. 25

after a ringleader of the, schstrassée," 1918 naval muting who was executed, and Fri. the school known as the Kaiser Freidrich Realgymnasium into Karl Marx. Gym-

nasium.

These changes will not be made immed. lately. The decisions of the Councils have to pass through various formalities, in- cluding, submission to the Chief of Police, for approval."

of decking and other débris were BRAVEST DEED OF THE YEAR.

washed on shore showing that some-

thing had happened to the Laurentic. SEAMAN'S RESCUE OF HIS MATE.

When the res, subeided and it was possible to send a diver down be found that the whole ship had collapsed like a pack of cards, driving the decks out sideways. This had been caused by the enormous pressiree exercised by the action of the waves deep below the

surface.

There was no hollow space in which men might crawl about, and we had to cut a way right into the crumpled ship with explosives.

Altogether since the beginning of the operations we have removed 3.000 tons of material. In the remaining part of about £1,000,000

The Royal Humane Society has award ed the Stanhope Gold Medal for the bravest deed of the year to Duncan L. Souter, a seaman, of Grimsby, who has already received the society's silver medal-

There was never for the same deed. any, doubt as to which action of the kind merited this award," it was stated after the meeting" and the court had not the least difficulty in selecting Mr. Souter for the honour. On May 16th, when the steam trawler Hungria was off the coast of Iceland, with half a gale blowing and heavy cross-seas running, the mate, John M. Lee, was washed overboard. Two life. buoys were thrown to him, but he failed" In 1919 the work was, resumed, and to reach either of them, and he was seen some gold was recovered. In 1920 and to give up and turn face downwards in 1091 we were very unlucky. When the the water.

Souter threw off his heavy boots and. ship collapsed the gold-was divided into two sections. The first lot was compara plunging overboard, secured one of the tively easy to recover. The second con-lifebuoys, which he took to Lee, sup- signment, however, was buried beneath porting him until the vessel was able to about 10 feet of sand and debris. con- throw line, by which both men were: sisting of broken-up fragments of the eventually got on boned.

The captain stated that if the árst ship and its fittings, including such things as berths, baths, wash-basins, and attempt to throw a line had been un- Buccessful it would have been impossible. owing to the wind and heavy seas, for

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recovered we worth of gold.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL LES, dei corection with above Steamer ars beroby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Tressure and Valuables are being landas and stond at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon

whence Delivery may be obtained tables. immediately after Anding.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unloss intimation is received from the Consigneta before 9.00 M., To-day, requesting it to be landed here.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the 22nd instant, af Noom, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charge

All Claims must be sent in to me on or before Thursday, the 25th instant, or they will not be recognized,

All damaged Packages will be examined on Monday, the 22nd instact, 10. am, by Mesra, Goddard & Douglas.

No Tire Insurance has been affected.

C. B. MIOLLIS, Acting Agent Hongkong, 16th March, 1926.

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SUNRISE AND BUKSET IN HONGKONG.

FOR MARCH, 1926,

STANDARD TIME OF THE 12012 MERIDIAN, BABY OF GREENWICH),

Bunrice. Date March 20th........0.2 A..

Sunset. 6.34 p.m.

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HOSE PIPE UNDER 2.

The divers worked in a jagged crater a second attempt to have been in time to When got on board Lee was uncon in the middle of the ship, and to remove effect rescue. the sand they had to scoop it into sacks

the deck. with their hands. The sand was made scious and Souter collaperd on reaching quite hard by the action of the waves, and the divers loosened it with a fire- hose pipe let down from the Ruteri

The diver squirted the jet of water into

WATER IN MY HELMET."

phone saying: There's some water coming into my helmet. Only a little, but be as quick as you can."

the sand, thereby loosening it, and as We heard a muffled voice on the tele- he did this he pushed his hand into the loosened sand to fel for the gold.

The men, crouched or lay down on the sand, scooping it into sacks and feeling We sent another man down at once. for the gold. Sometimes at the end of and he cut the pipe loose while he was several days, of work, they would have

standing astride it. Immediately the their finger-nails worn down almost to other man rose, and the pipe dragged the quick, and the tips of their fingers the second man to the surface with him. solt ce sponges. They would not wear Fortunately neither of them struck the gloves. "In 1922, 1923. and 1924 we made good bottom of the Racer.

Owing to the high compression a diver progress, and at the end of that year could only work at the bottom about one there was less than one per cent of the half-hour at a time. It took him about gold in the wreck. The sand was then half an hour to come to the surface so Raining fast on the divers and the work that the pressure, in his suit might be had to be abandoned.

reduced by stages. Throughout there was not one accident,

During the operations we had a num- but there was a queer mishap. To preber of cases of high-compression sickness, vent the air-pipe from dragging on their These were treated by putting the affected helmets the divers tied the pipe to a part man at once into the recompression of the wreck, allowing themselves a cer- chambar on board. He was there put tain amount of slack.

under a high air pressure again, and One day a man was working head. very soon felt better. downward when the trousers of his suit Bome of the bars of gold recovered became Blled with air, and he started to were bent right round into a "U" rise to the surface uneide down. When shape, while others had pebbles driven he had risen some distance, he was stop-hard into them-and also half-crowns. ped by the lashing of the pipe below, One of the queerest finds was a small And no he hung upside down half-way silver coin of the reign of Edward. II. between the surface and the bottom, like or Edward IV. I do not know how it

got there unless it belonged to somebody. a mine.,

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