Show PRIZED BELL IS RECOVERED remarkable salvage feat recently performed in burma ona ot the sights of the shwe da gobb pagoda in burma Is a gigantic bell of bronze weighing forty two and a quarter tons and said to be the third largest bell in the world the largest being in moscow and the next largest in mingin also in burma at ter conquering burma the british un dercook to carry the great rangoon bell to calcutta as a trophy but dropped it overboard in the rangoon river where it defied all the efforts of the engineers to raise it some years later the burmese who had not ceased to mourn its loss begged to be allowed to recover it their petition was granted and by attaching to it an incredible number of bamboo floats the unwieldy mass of metal was finally lifted from its muddy bed and triumphantly restored to its place |