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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 28,

THE

CRUISER

Sail Pin Driven

SABOTAGE

1936.

FINISHING TOUCHES TO QUEEN MARY}

Through Electric

Cable Of Ship

Chatham, Mar. 10.

A naval court of inquiry was begun in Chatham Dockyard to-day into a case of sabotage discovered a few days ago in the 9,750-ton cruiser Cumberland, which has been refitting here for some months.

Following a brief official statement by the Admiralty early this morning, all dock- yard workers and naval ratings have been impressed with the need for continued secrecy on the matter. They have been forbidden to discuss it between themselves or with outsiders.

No official statement about the nature of the damage was made at the dockyard, but it is believed that part of the main electrical circuit of the cruiser had been tampered with.

There are hundreds of miles of electric cabler running through П modern worship. Just as in the case of the bat- (leship Royni Onk Inst December, a enll pin had been hammered through the cable which con- tulus a large number of wires. Had the flaw not been dis- covered the whole of the electrie service of the ship would have! been put out of action.

The pin had been driven through

the cable in such a way that thr: ho was almost Invisible. Only the astuteness of an overseer de- tected it.

DISCOVERED AT SEA

Hundreds of men were working at full speed right to the last day to get, the Queen Mary ready, in time for her maiden voyage down the Clyde this week. The picture shows workmen painting on one of her tre-

medous funnels.

LOST CONTINENT FOUND IN MIDDLE OF PACIFIC OCEAN?

STORY NOT SO FANTASTIC

San Francisco, Mar. 25.

For many decades there have been stories of a great lost continent, drowned under the blue waves of the Pacific. And now comes science to report that the stories may

In the sabotage on board the not be fantastic after all-that the legend of a once broad Aubmarine Oberon, in which

damage WIE

also done to the land stretching from Aşia eastward almost to the shores elcetrie equipment, it was not un-of the American continent, may be true.

defect was discovered. She might

come up again.

til the craft was at sea that the Ships that pass over the gloomy depths where the have dived on her trials never to strange land is supposed to lie have taken soundings that dimly record its outline, its higher mountains, its gorges, The damage to the Cumberland lakes and rivers. Yet this data in itself is not proof that It may few days ago. | was discovered a Immediate inquiries were made in the land was ever above the surface of the sea. the dockyard by the Royal Marine have lain submerged from the beginning of time.

police.

Science now turns to one of the islands in the Pacific," he says, "is Secret inquiries wore maile, une known to the thousand men work-least conspicuous and frailest forms what might be expected were they ing on the Cumberland, by officers of animal life, land shells and land the remains of a sunken continent". of M.15, a branch of the Intel-mollusks-what the layman enlla Dr. Pilsbry says the continent ligence Service. A number of "snails"-to forge a link in n chain may have extended from the Mar- these men are attending the court that yet may prove there really wasquesas Islands, 3.825 miles west of of inquiry, which will last some once a continent in the Pacific, Panama, southward to the Australs, continent that slowly submerged a distance of 1,000 miles, thence days.....

It is thought that the sabotage until only the peaks-of-its highest westward to Fiji, 2,500 miles, and occurred during the dinner-hour, mountains remained above the sur-northwest to the Caroline and the continent about when all men come ashore and entface of the sea-mountain peaks Marshall groups, near Japon. This their midday meal, either in the that are now called "Islands," dot-would make

ting the surface of the Pacific for 5,000 miles long and about 3,000 canteen or in the dockyard.

miles wide, north and south, if the thousands of square miles,

Land snails can live only on land. American territory of Hawallis of the possible Their only means of travel is a considered part slow, crawling motion-the push-northern boundary.

These measurements are based ing out of a slimy "fcot" and the

Addi- contracting of it. Yet these crea-on surviving mountain tops. tures, of similar species and tional extent of the continent can't genern, live on islands and groups be guessed.

A number of electrical workers in the dockyard are being inter rogated at the court of inquiry.

Death Of Railway Guard

of islands hundreds and even thousands of miles apart.

Strango People

Moat scientists dislike to disenss How did they get there? the possibility of the lost continent Scientists who have given their because laymen are so likely to lives to a study of the frail crea-jump to conclusion, and imagine continent. Inhabited by 1 tures suy the answer is obvious, the that they crawled over land when stranve race of people. FAREWELL PRAYER

there was land to crawl over. There was no human life on the Moving slowly in search of food, continent," Dr. Crampton says. WITH BRIDE-TO-BE

they gradually spread over that old "Human beings had not yet come into the Pacific, I must insist lost land of the Pacific.

upon this because so much nonsense Shortly after he had asked the,

Travelled By Logs

has been written about great popu- woman he was to have married to

Theories that the snails may havol lations being engulfed in cata- pray with him, Corporal George drifted on logs, been swept hun- clysms. All that

pure myth- Francis Palmer, 29, of the 2nd dreds of miles by hurricane, ori Battalion Grenadier Guards, at their eggs carried in earth that tion. It is probable that the

the product of romantle imagina Lioned at Chelsen Barracks, fell on clung to the feathers of birds are islands of the Pacific, when man the line at Sloane-square Under-discounted because of the frailty of rat landed on them in outrigger ground station and was killed.

the animals. Some of these most canoes, were about the same size He was to have sailed for Egypt widely scattered have shells so frail and shape as they are now. The with his battallon this month. On that scientists bave difficulty get anails came ages earlier." February 14 he visited Miss Ellen ting them unbroken into collections. The Polynesian islands firmly be Byrne, a young Irish woman stay-

Dr. Henry E. Crampton, profes-lieve in the lost continent. ing In Pimlico whom he hoped Hor of zoology at Columbia Univer- In the Hawaiian islands there alty, stated his bellofa quite post-are brief references, to "Hawaii- Saturday night," Misstively when, interviewed in San moox" interpreted na "Hawait that Byrne sald, we were at his home Francisco on his return from alcops beneath the sea," and to a in Canning Town, and he seemed stady in Howall of shells collected chief named Nuu, who, in a great folly and happy. In readiness for by the Mangareva expedition of flood that drowned the land, took our wedding, which I had hoped the Bishop Museum of Honolulu refuge in a canoe to finally land on would be next week, he became during a seven months cruise the summit of Mauna Kea, tower- converted to the Roman Catholic through little known regions of the ing mountain on the Island of faith.

South Seas..

Hawali. Land Masses Onco

Gradual ProĊESS "Not only the distribution of the! Scientists, however, emphasize "On Sunday evening he came to snails, but also that of animal life that the sinking of the land would sep me. Something seemed to up in general in the Pacific points to have been a gradual process. ect him, and he said: "Kneel down the exlatence at one time of Jurge In the South Seas, the legend is and pray with me, Nellie: you will land maseck in that ocean, ho Bald, met frequently of a country called not see me again. He knelt down There may not have been land, all Hiti-Marama, the border of the and prayed for many minutes.

this way across, but there must have moon, which was once in the area.

to marry.

"On

FAREWELL KISS

"He kissed me good-bye and leit been at least very large patches of now filled by the great empty sea the house. I got worried and rait. Our study of animal life in between Pitcairn Island and the after him but missed him. Later dicates that this Pacifo land was South American coast. The legend I inquired at the barracks, and connected with the continent of ends with the island's submergence heard someone say that he was Asla rather than with that of into the se dead."

America. The forms of fo found If the old continent. had not been Mr. Thornton, who lives in the the islands, though they have lost, It probably would look much same house as Miss Byrne, sald he been changed, by long residence in like the islands romains of it to- and. Palmer spoke about Egypt. thoir

"I advised him to have the wod-Asiatic forms.

present homes, resemble day. It would have been tropical and, semi-tropica) else the snails ding on his return," Mr. Thornton Dr. Henry Augustus Pilsbry could not have lived. It probably added. "If they married next week (correct) of the Philadelphia would have giant ferns. steaming

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