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...After lunch there, as we passed the harbor, we saw all the ships gaily hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible...
...inauguration was divided into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...
Forty-three oarsmen of the single vessel variety have entered the six-class competition for the H.A.A. summer sculling medals, Bill Dowd, clerk of course, disclosed last night, in announcing next week's schedule of trial heats and finals immediately after the entry deadline of 6 o'clock yesterday...
...thousand miles away, in Bombay harbor, the 400-ton coastal vessel Ramdas, its decks crowded with more than 700 people, headed out for the one-hour run to Rewaz. A wall of water swept in from the open sea, struck the Ramdas a reeling blow. A second huge wave crashed down on the decks, sweeping the screaming passengers into the sea. No lifeboats were launched, no radio messages sent. Clinging to the floating wreckage were 179 survivors. In exactly two minutes, 563 people were lost...
...Jews was in effect yesterday, as a mine blast in Halfa that killed one and wounded seven persons touched off a third consecutive night of violence in the Holy Land. The explosion occurred shortly after it was announced that 4,500 illegal Jowish immigrants, intercepted on the vessel President Warfield, were being returned to France. French sources had not decided last night whether to let the unwilling immigrants land, and were negotiating with the British...