The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, November 20, 1915. RAISING PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1475, 20 November 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, November 20, 1915. RAISING PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

The local Patriotic Society has adopted an excellent scheme to raise funds tor the relief of sick and wounded soldiers. The society has decided to procure and distribute collection boxes in every occupied house in the borough and outlying district. Whatever the occupants feel disposed fo coutiibute at odd limes will bade posited in the box. This scheme will not impose a burden upon any one, and if ouly a few pence are dropped in at odd times it will mount up to two or three shillings per month. If only one shilling per month, per box, is averaged, which is a very low estimate, It will amount to upwards of .£3OO per year. Collectors will be appointed to clear the boxes every three mouths, and if this scheme is taken up in the right spirit by the public, it will obviate the necessity for special efforts. It is a splendid idea, and we strongly recommend its adoption to the public-

SALVAGE OF SUBMARINES

The problem of raising sub marines that have been accidentally sunk has proved so difficult of solution in all navies possessing vessels of this type, that the greatest Interest has been evinced in the operations in connection with the salvage of the United Stales submarine Fq, which disappeared in 300 ft. of water off Honolulu In March last, and was raised on August 29. Owing to the depth the operations were of a most exacting and perilous nature for most of the officers and men engaged In them, but there was a very natural desire ou the part of the United States naval authorities and the people of America generally to bring the submarine to the surface, at whatever cost ot money and effort. After other methods had been tried without effect, that of attempting to lift the vessel by the buoyancy of air chambers affixed to the sunken submarine was resorted to, aud proved successful. Six cylinders, 32ft. long, and four of them nft. in diameter aud two 12It. 6iu. in diameter, were used, according to the first authentic account of the operations published in the Army and Navy Register. Their combined lifting capacity was 420 tons, and each cylinder was divided into two compartments by a transverse watertight bulkhead, while each compartment had a £ln. valve for blowing out a qln. combination flood and discharge valve. Six chains were placed under the vessel, and, after being attached to the pontoons, lifting was accomplished by blowing the water out of the cylinders by means of compressed air. The work of placing the chains under the vessel was started on August 21, and the vessel was raised eight days later.