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THE NEW PYGMY THE LUSITANIA DIARY OF LOCAL

SUBMARINE

British Type On Trial

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London, Jan. 4 H.M.S. Shark, now running her trials in the Channel, is Britain's Intest pocket submarine." Com pleted at Chatham in October, this little vessel has already shown remarkable qualities of seaworthi- ness, quick diving, and deadliness in sttack.

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Effort To Salvage Vessel

Stratford Com Simon Lake, Inventor of the even keel submarine, has revealed plans for salvaging the steamship Lusitania, torpedoed by the Ger- mans in 1915 off the coast of Ireland with a loss of 1,198 lives and carrying to the bottom of the sea a fabulous fortune in gold and jewels,

First step in the tremendous undertaking, for which take was taken on October 6, when the already has entered negotiations, Lilian, a 250-ton salvage bort to which is attached, a 137 100% "Vacuum cleaner" am für dædg-

Compared with the big "Over seas" type of 1,500 tons which preceded her, the Shark is pygmy

She is barely. 200ft in length has a breadth of only 2414. and displaces 6TU tons. Yet aboing the floor, was launched at the can taxi over 2,000 miles on the Lake Submarine Corporation surface, or, at fali power, travel yards. Tum at nearly 10 miles per hour.

The Lillian will be med to search for the sunken British Frigate Hussar and her cargo of New York If the Lillian is suc- gold of 85,000,000 fri East River, cessful, Lake intends to build a 3,000-ton boat offenfiar design with a salvaging arm 500 feet long for further experiments before beginning work on their largest salvaging ship in the world,

EVENTS

TO-DAY

Thursday, Jan. 24.

Fing Shan, 11.30 am.

Auctions-Sale of Crown Lands

King's: Queen's

troy."

Cinemas

Adventure Girl"

Whom The Gods Des-

Central The Stormtroops Of

1917." Oriental, The Thundering

Herd." World: By Whose Hand?" Alhambra “Journal · OI

"Springtime Henry. StarDeath Takes A Holiday." Entertainments. Plano and Vocal Recital, Helena May, 5.30

„Ozime.” Majestle:

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Lectures-MR Bander, Theo sophical Society, HK. Club Anger, 6 pm: Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Law and

University, 8.30 p.m. Commerce Society, Hong Kong

Meetings-Central British Asso- clation: 6.30 pm: Teachers". "A550– clation, CHistory and Geography Rection), 8CM. Post Board Room, 5 pine

For rapid diving this type is probably unequalled by any other Fubmarine. It can perform "crash dive" in 30sec, and once under water is extraordinarily simple and safe to handle. A

In the bows are mounted six cubes for discharging the powerful lin torpedo, a salvo of which would probably disable any battleship afloat. These deadly

Miscellaneous. Whist Drive. "Esh" can be fired either singly

... A Hollow Arm

Civil Service Cricket Club, 8,45 or all together. The pressure of The Hillar is a regular schooner Women's Fellowship Games a button in the control room will to which is attached a huge blunt Afternoon, St. Andrew's Hall, 3 send all six torpedoes racing to end arm resembling a báto wards the target at 45 knots, masher. The arm 157.

On deck two small quick-firing and weighs 70 ton It is

Moon 4. Moon, 20th Day. guns are mounted for use agained to the mother of huling post, drál

Reb bostile aircraft or light surisee patrol, The Shark e equipped with high poweradie, many, safe ty devices, including an escape tube, a control tower divided into two watertight, sections, and sub marine signalling apparatus. Her complement is four officers and about 30 ratings.

So far 11 of these powerful and handy little submarines have been laid down or authorised. They are intended chiefly for coast detence, but would be quite capable of undertaking operations farther afeld if necessary. They have the [additional advantage of being comparatively cheap, coeting about |£250,000 each.

GOLD IN CENTRAL ASIA

Soviet Sends Out Survey Expedition

Alma-Ata." Over 360 goldfields have been recently discovered in Central Asia. A-permanent expedition has been seat now to effect a detailed survey of these goldfields and to prospect for new ones!

by x swivel and can be lower will into the vide

ting sal-

arm is a catwalk,p vagers to lower thems entire length of the arm. Another catwalk extends along the outside of the arm

The arm sucks the mud and sand from the sea bottoms into barges, A set of grapplers at the end of the sucker carries any large objects unable to go through the arm to the surface.

...

300 Tons An Hour

The Vacuum cleaner is capable of sucking at the rate of 300 tons en hour. Barges will pass by the mother, boat, taking on loads, while the salvaging operations are. under way Three coast guard patrol boats am, under contract, to police the salvaging area.

The Lillian is known as an in- land salvager. The next stage, construction of the 500 foot arm, will be the ocean salvager which will be replaced by a third boat which will seek

the Lusitanila treasures.

"Our work with the present salvager Lake said, will const of salvaging many of the wrecks which I have located along our coast

* The - expedition; has detalled

three parties for work on the p northern and southern slopes of Tien-Sham in the neighbourhood St. Andrew's, 8 pm, 'B": Division, of lake Issik-Kal, the southern { YMCA. v. Taikoo R.C., 8 pm slope of Alxandrov mountain | Billiards Steel Coulson League, range and the tributaries of the Garrison. Sergeants y. Chief and Chirchik, Chetkal, Sandalsah Petty Officers, Royal Artillery Askant and Uguem-rivers.

East Lancashires. Exploration parties will soon be Hockey-Hong sent to the Bary-Djaz mountain range and to the Pamirs, where over 50 gold veins have been found on the surface.

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Sports: Hockey.. Ladies Interport: Hockey Trial (Sookunpoo), 5.15 p.m.; YMCA seconds v. Firth Battery, HKSRA--

Meetings. Central British Asso- clation, 6.30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 25. Anniversaries and Holidays-- Conversion of St. Paul, Birthday of Celestial Dragon. (Tien-lung-tan).

Cinemas King's Adventure Girl.” Queen's Wake Up And

Dream”T Central The Stormtroop Of.

1917 Oriental:-

mance." In The # Rain." World:By Whose Hand?” Alhambra: #Journal Of

Crime" MajesticThe Grand Canary" Star: Death Takes A Holiday." Dances Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m.

Helena May, 10.30 am. 8t. An- Meetings-Christian Fellowship, drew's Girls' Guild, 5.30 p.m.

Miscellaneous. Chinese New Year Fair Gloucester Roadță also at Yaumati

Moon IT Moon, 31st Day

Religious.

Consecration of Mr. Mok Shan Tsang, St. John's Cathe dral, 5.30 pm.

Social Functions. Burns Dinner Hong Kong Hoteli

A Sports BadmintonMixed Doubles, St. Andrew's v. YMCA, § p.m.; Men's Sunrise 7.05 am Sunset 8.08 Doubles, "A" Division, Eliot Hal v

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