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Show uu HAWAIIAN NATIVES GIVE FOR LIQUOR (By International News Service) SAN Ki: A -ClKC Hawaiian waters now have a new thrill for swimmers, a thrill that eeeetl cen thai of the far-famed surf riding It In ., thrill that rarelv happens these days. Several weeks ago a steamer load-ed load-ed with sugar went on ::ie rocks, was j floated and brought to Pearl Harbor ! for repairs. In cleaning the ship of its cargo (the offlclul:- found whiskcj and gin j in cases In large numbers, some say to the extent of five tons in weight, scattered among the sugar sacks. The ', i ntlre cargo of sugar mir. Us traveling travel-ing companion, which was making the Journey incognito, was bound for the Atlantic coast. But a drydock Is no place for wet (goods. Overboard went the cueee The scramble then began, wdth a ! fleet of small boats cruising the vl in-Ity in-Ity and swimmers from the shore making records for submerged swimming swim-ming all feverishly s- arhing for the whiskey and the gin. Ii is reported that several hundred cases of the valuable valu-able liquids were rescued from the briny deep and placed at the disposal of prohibition subjects. |