Foreign News: Recovery

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed the House of Commons that bullion to the amount of £3,817,232 had been salvaged from the steamship Laurentic, sunk by a German mine off the northwest coast of Ireland on Jan. 23, 1917. The Laurentic lies in 138 feet of water.

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