STRANGE VOYAGES.
The lifebelt from- the Lusitania, which has just turned up in a North American river, has been an unusually long time on its comparatively short journey (says a London newspaper). But more remarkable than the time is the faat that if succeeded in Crossing the Atlantic in spite of the Gulf Stream, which must surely have carried it to the Arctic had it come within it sphere of influence. In August, 1013, a school teacher threw a bottle into the English Channel off Dorset, with a note inside asking anyone who found it to communicate with her. The following July it was picked up • near Christchurch, New Zealand, having travelled, at least 12,000 miles in 11 months. In all probability the Lusitania relic was first carried south- i ward, but the mystery is how it I afterwards found its way to the I coast of North America. ' j
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 578, 26 October 1920, Page 2
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150STRANGE VOYAGES. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 578, 26 October 1920, Page 2
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