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Show aasse- MdbvjperatI CANADIAN CRUISER TAKEN OFF H0ALS AND SAFELY TOWED INTO HARBOR. Wireless Operator Stuck te Hla Post and Signaled for Assistance While Crew Ware Manning Pumps ra Effort te Check Water. llallfni. K H After five tensn ; hours on the l'li:os ten miles at sea ! Nova Hcotia, Willi a gaping bole In I Nova Hemic, with a g aplrn hole In ! her hull and holding four feet of wa ( ter, the ('aiimllaii crulxer Nlohe floated float-ed off with the maintain n ot tuna Hun-jduy Hun-jduy and la nmhoied In Hhag harbor. That tho warship and her new of several hundred men wero finally res I sued I due to her wireless operator, who sun k to hie piM throughout and flashed "H. (k H " - Incessantly while the crew n manning thn pomp In wlmt almost proved to he a vain attempt at-tempt to chmk thn Inrush of water. Tha Nlobe rrasnod on the ledges shortly berore I o'clock Hiimlny morning morn-ing In a thick tog and heavy sea. All the men wnm In their hummock at the time and moat of thim were I thrown to the ib-c by thn Impart. 1 hern was confusion only for a moment. mo-ment. The operator of the wireless began signaling for In Ip and soon half a dot-en dot-en steamer worn racing to thn aal lane of the strangled cruiser. |