The Archive · 1937

White Star Olympic Broken

London, Sept. 17.

Shipping on the Tyne will be sus pended for two hours on Sunday when the 46,000-ton White Star liner Olympic leaves Jarrow for Inverkeithing, On the Firth of Forth, for the final stages of breaking up. Eight local tugs will take the vessel out of the Tyne and four Hull tugs will undertake the sea tow which will la iwò days—Wireless through Reuter. vantage of the opportunity to remove some of his property from a house in Hongkew—in Young Allen Court, it was said.

He found Japanese reservists in possession of the place. As it was a pretty hot day he felt like having a beer, and went to his refrigerator from habit. He found beer there all right but it was not his own stock.

He ended by paying 40 cents for a bottle (a reasonable charge indeed), then went on with his evacuation.

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