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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 283, 24 August 1920, Page 5

Another wo,T-time secrete is out. When the Leviathan was making her first voyage as an American troopship some of her crew. betook themselves to a lower hold near the keel, and at a distance , from the wheel house, and ifliere, believing themselves to be carefully concealed, fliey began to smoke to their heart's content. There was no othor person, officer or man, within many yards of the placo, but they had been indulging i» l&o forbidden celight for only a few minutes when they were caught in the act and punished by a round of extra duty. The mvstery has now been revealed by a former officer of the vessel. There had been installed on till© Leviathan a fire-dotection system consisting of a 6eries of pipeg to the holes, through which a suction fan was continually drawing samples of air to the wheel house, Thus the on fluty quickly noticed the curling wispa of smoko coming oiiii of the pipe from ono of the lower holds, and, sniffing the Binoke, detected the familiar odour of nicotine. A camel, when burdened, can travel twenty-live' miles a day; when unburdened, as many as sixty to seventy, (Tho cablo newß In thin lnauo accredited lo the liondon "Times" ho* appeared in that Journal, but only where expressly stated la such n<m« the editorial opinion <, ot the "Tlnum.") ~ I