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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY,

Lusitania Diver to Broadcast From 300 Feet Below Sea

SALVAGING £1,000,000 TREASURE

One day this summer you will be able to switch on the wireless and hear a broad cast from the Lusitania.

Yes, the Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915, and now lies 300 feet below the surface of the sea with £1,000,000 of bullion in her holds.

The broadcaster will be Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood deep-sea photographer, who is gambling with death in an nt- tempt to make a film of the Lusitania salvage operations.

Ho will be lowered from the salvage ship Orphir, 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, where the Lusitania was sunk.

Captain Craig will go down with the salvage divers, and film then as they cut their way with undersen oxygen acetylene torches through the battered plates of the wreck.

He will broadcast descriptions of ||

the divers at work.

BIGGEST THRILL

Then after the long, dangerous task of slashing a way through the ship, there will come the most drama- tic moment of the search.

In Captain Craig's own words:

"The divers move the Hame downwards, alicing the steel, and at last they push in the plate they have cut out, and we walk in.

"But no, we do not walk right In....when at last we stand at the threshold of the strong-room we must report to London by radio. I don't know why

vho

The East

Claimed Him...

AFTER years of duty in the fonast- kong Garrison, the 2nd Battalion the King's Own Scottish Borderers was ordered eight years ngo to India,

With the battalion

Lucknow to

Promotion is slow in the Army, but

four years after his other

arrival

Captain Crolg-he is the man made "Trader Horn," "Dev!) Tiger," "Wrestling Swordfish," And adventure films will descend with his assistants in an elaborate diving gear which he has invented himself.

RISKING DEATH

He and his

assistants will hives many terrors to face.

"The descent into the vessel mu be made carefully," he says in "Don- ger in My Business" (Šimon unr Schuster, New York)

"If we should slip and plunge down some rotten wood, the fall would be 9011. the width of the vessel. The sudden change in pressure woutd crush us to death in a quicht iron grip. breaking the bloodvessels in our brains."

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European Cycling

Praised

Vallejo, Cal

Paul Cassady, roving mall carrier, back from ʼn 4,000 mile bicycle trip | of Europe, declares the Old World In!

far ahead of the New World in blcycle development. Three spredn

JUNE

4, 1988.

Enemy equipment was put to good use by members of the Chinese Eighth Route

army, shown above in Shans! province. The Eighth army in commended by the Communist General Cho Teh and depends upon captured food, clothing and arina as

soldiers wear moves, Here, captured Japanese coats And other clothing. This army was important in beating back the enemy, and moving on Pelping.

SQUIRE IS GIVEN POLICE GUARD AFTER £30,000 POKER CHARGE

New York.

Thirty-year-old Mr. Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton, one weni Major J. K. Boyd Campbell of Britain's richest landowners, was under guard recently following his complaint that he was tricked out of £30,000 in fifteen minutes while playing poker in a Hollywood hotel.

India Major Campbell, given the

command of the battalion, came Lieut.-Cul_Campbell.

More yours of soldier tug but with

He has received many threatening telephone mes- every your the dreams of homie, sages since he took counsel's opinion about the game, and

all calls to him are now first answered by a detective.

The district attorney, Mr. Buron Fitts, spent some

of Scotland, even coming newter j realisation.

Then came

intimation the ufieut

at his pending retirement to take hours questioning Mr. Clifton and one of the men he says

cert in month.

A few weeks luge bleut-Col. Cown

hell booked passages for himself, his wife, and daughter, and then off on a round of farewells. While on a visit to a detachment at

Darjeeling he derideil to fishing.

He fell inte a river.

ing swept away.

he played with, Lew Brice, brother of Fanny Brice, the

actress.

CLAW AL

Much depends on whether thei The game is to be replayed in M

Five chairs wil be Rame WELR furt

poker. Pitts's office

He Stud poker in which some of the arranged round table in cards are deall face upwards) is positions Mr. Clifton says they his body be-legal in California; draw poker (i cupled at the hotel, and pieces

which the cards are dealt face down paper will be used instead of money. wmds) le not.

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Me The East schich he had served

Je,

claimed tado death.

Museum Gets Albino Coon

in

In

Philadelphila. The Philadelphia zʊʊ luis nequired The anima),

and two sets of brukes operated from; a rare albino ravevon,

the handle bar have lifted eyeling to which is entirely white, with pink an art he thinks.

eyes, was captured in Georgia.

'REPLAY' ARRANGED

The other players, Tommy Guinan, brother of the late night elui queen"; George Lewis and Jack Rey-! nolds have not yet been seen by Mr. Fitts.

Horses And Buggios Scarce

Tulore, Cal.

(C-

of

Tu help carry out Its Theme tparade for the Golden Jubilee of this

The district attorney wants

Brice know whether

T three city, it was necessary to advertise in

like The

10 obtain a horse full house (ww)

newspapers

the affair.---Untied cards and three like cards). Brice and buggy for

Presa. claims he had a full house.

seven ext

ONE MAN IN

FOUR

WILL LIVE TO 77

ONE

men

of

\NE-FOURTH of the

each generation now born will reach the age of 77, and one-tenth will live to be 83.

This is the conclusion of a well- known actuary who has just cum- pleted an investigation of the sub- jeet for life insurance companies,

Population trends." ho BLid, "Indicate that we shall all become malion of old people within the persent century.

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"This does not mean that science will give us everlasting life, but rather that fewer children are being ton, while the average life span Is being raised."

Jeweller Buys Gold Brick

Sallnus, Cal.

The good old days of the "gold brick" neket are not so remote as "suckers" of more modern rackets might belleve. Salinas and Wilson- ville pollee are looking for a BIGG who sold one gold brick to a local jeweller for $35 and one to a Watson- ville merchant for $48. The bricks were heavily gold plated and were worth about $7 cach,

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There are special rebates for Government officials and officers of H.M. Forces and their families. These magnificent 4-engined flying-boats have spacious and sound-proof saloons, promenade decks, smoking rooms and well-equipped kitchens.

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