East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-19
THAT I'LL
FATED LINER Will
SOON RISE FROM OCEAN
BY C. f. MORRIS
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

! Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, July 19.-(U. PD-spec-
| ulation is rife here and on the Cont
nent as to the possibility of raising the
! Lusitania.
/ whether the salvaging is successful
/ or not, revelations of historic import
| are expected to follow the attempt.
! DID the Lusitania carry munitions?
/ That is the moot question which the
salVaging operations are expected to
clear up.
| The German press is taking a par
/ ticularly keen interest in the project.
Berlin papers, which have recently
| been devoting considerable space to
| discussings of war guilt, are. agitating
for the appointment of German Of
4 ficial witness of the salvaging attempt.
i Count Charles Zaradi Landi, who
will command the specially equipped
| salvage ship. "Semper Paratus" is
confident of success. ~-s
/ "The Lustania," he told an inter-
viewer. lies in 2S0 feet of water on
clean gravel bottom. No attempt has
ever been made to raise her because
the limit of diving possibilities has
! hitherto been not much more than
l20 feet. The new diving suit whisN
! | have invented will enable my men to
work at depth of 500 feet"
DO you expect to bring the Ius.
tania hCme under her own steam?"
the count was asked s..,...ta.r
Engines Disabled.
Perhaps not" the salver replied"
! expect to find her engines disabled
/ by the torpedo that severed her main
steam pipe, thus instantly stopping all
her mechanical functions when she
was hit. Had that fatal torpedo struck
80 feet further forward, the Lusitania
would never have sunk. She could
have limped along those few miles and
been tamely beached.
| "If il is mechanically possible
said the count, three days are all that
are necessary to get the engines of q
salvaged vessel in order again. There
is no rust. The deeper the water in
which ship has been lying, the less
rust there is" 81.
Count Landi does not appear dis
| turbed by the report that an Ameri-
can firm is already proceeding across
the Atlantic to salve the Lusitania.
The Ayeready salvaging and Tow
ing Company, of which 1 am manag-
ing director" he said, 'has been
granted three-year contract by the
Liverpool and London War Risk In
surance Company the British owners
of the vessel and her contents"
Count Landi an italian by birth,
| is a naturalized British subject, He
spent years in Canada at ship safying
and photographic surveys.
His Greatest Triumph. u
One of the counts greatest tri.
umphs as salver was the raising of
the French steamer "ENangeline."
which was torpedoed near Corfu and
sank with heavy and extremely val
uable~cargo off the Madonna Rocks.
The French Admiralty sent for Iandi.
Contre Admiral Merveilleux du Wig
na,uX, in command of the Eastern
mediterranean, was skeptical of the
attempt.
After going down, examining the
ship and estimating the difficulties.
Land said to the French commander.
II will have her up in six days"
The admiral laughed tolerantly.
She came up in five days. four
hours and 22 minutes" said Landi in
describing the salving of this vessel.
Landi has had eighteen years ex-
perience in salvaging work. While
operating under Sir Vincent Gregh of
the British Salvage Company. of Lon
don with Constantinople as his base
ne brought up many ships of all sizes
IN the Black Sea, the DardanelIes and
the Sea of Marmora. During and
since the war he has had charge of
the salvaging operations of various
chartered by the British
One of the grimmest tales of salv-
ing that Count Landi has to tell is of
the King Alfred. When she. was tor
pedoed a gramaphone concert was
going on in the ward room. Rule
was being played as she
sank When the salvers brought I'm
he gramaphone half year later. fuIl
II water but undamaged. the record
vas still in place. The machine was
Tried out and the unplayed half of the