Saturday being the eighth anniversary of the wreck of the German gunboat Iltis, an interesting ceremony took plac round the memorial monument on. the Bund. At nine' o'clock about three hundred sailors, belonging to the German war vessels now in port, were drawn up round the monument. The proceedings were opened by the Band of the First Bismarck, which played 2 hymn. Vico-'Admiral von Prittwitz then addressed the sailors. He explained the object of the ceremony—that it was held in
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