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Show MAY PUMP OUT THE HARBOR OP PORT ARTHUR TO GET AT SUNKEN SHIPS. TOKIO, Jan, 20. It has been proposed to dam Port Arthur harbor at the entrance en-trance and pump out the water preparatory prepara-tory to salving the Russian war vessels. Discussing the matter, a naval officer today said that under ordinary circumstances circum-stances such a great work would be unprofitable, un-profitable, but in view of the number of ahips possibly salvable and the shallowness shallow-ness and smallness of the harbor. It may. be the most economical method. |