"UNLUCKY THIRTEENTH."
DIVERS REFUSE TO WORK. FORCE OF SUPERSTITION. LONDON. Aug. 14. German divers, equipped with patent apparatus for working at great depths, were prepared yesterday to make another attempt to salve £1,000,000 worth of bullion that was taken to the bottom of the English Channel when the P. and O. Company's steamer Egypt was sunk in a collision a few years ago, but someone suddenly remembered that not only was the day Friday, but that it was the thirteenth day of the. month. The divers accordingly refused to. descend, and ithe crew of the salvage steamer also refusing to "carry on," the operations had to'be postponed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 11
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107"UNLUCKY THIRTEENTH." New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 11
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