Japanese Express Gratitude to Hongkong Government Hongkong, Mar, 12, The Japanese trans-Pacific liner, Asama Maru, which ran aground last August'in a typhoon, was refloated last night after months of effort by a Japanese salvage com any, No less than $6 divers were continually engaged, while 8,000 tons of rock were blasted from ' beneath the vessel in a series of delicate operations.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the owners of the ship, and the Japanese authorities here paid a' special tribute to-day to the broadmindedness of the Hongkong Government in allowing salvage work to proceed immediately under the fortifications at Laimoon Pass, which command the entrance to Hongkong Harbour,
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