Some distance from the ship it was agreed that there was the possibility that she was snug on the rocks and that she might last for some consider able time. How correct they were can be Judged from the fact that she {still there although there have been some strong gales and one blow more in the nature of a hurricane than anything else, Back then to the ship went the captain, officers and crew and efter settling down and trying to dry themselves and get something to ent the waves started washing over the sides and for the second time the ship was abandoned. They landed at Gaishikotun, a hamlet near the for~ tress town of historic fame and the next day the officers were installed at the Yamato Hotel, Dairen. The afew of 36 were accommodated at a Chinese inn and later sent on to Shanghai to be followed some days later by the officers after Captain Young, marine superintendent of Messrs, Wheelock & Ca,, Nad arrived Dairen to take charge.
Afler lying in funeral state for so long there is now a decided note of activity round the Gemlock. Divers fire at work and all kinds of queer looking contraptions are scattered about in the vicinity, But, according te the chief engineer for the salvage workers, everything is proceeding apace and he expects that she will be off the rocks in the very near future, British Engineers to Stay on Cable Island Shanghai, July 6.
According to the naval spokesman at yesterday's Japanese press conterence, the Eastern Telegraph Com= any, which has a relay station on island off the Min' River, has requested from. the Japanese that four British engineers may be permitted to land on the island and care for large batteries which might detertorate, He' further stated that the com= nding oticer of H.M.S. H-64 and executive of the company had assured them that no wireless or table lines were operating and there. fore no communication' could be made with the Chinese, 'The Japanese navy recalled that an old' Chinese military cable had functioned there. They must. first investigate its condition and probably by. tomorrow the four engineers would be allowed to land on the ise Jand.
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