British Losses

A fateful ship is the 46,500-ton Europa, sister to the world's fastest liner, the North German Lloyd's Bremen. Last March, when the Europa was nearly ready to be put in commission, fire mysteriously broke out in four different places amidships, the ship burned to "the waterline for a $6,000,000 loss. Rueful British insurance men who had taken a large part of the Europa's underwriting, paid $4,500,000. In July Phoenix Europa arose from her ashes, was launched again. When the ship was halfway down the ways another mysterious explosion blew away half of the wooden scaffolding supporting her. Fortunately the Europa was uninjured.

Last week eight big tugs pushed the now completely restored Europa from her Hamburg dock to undergo three days of sea trials. Before the eyes of thousands of cheering schoolchildren, the Mayor and Corporation of Hamburg and STIMMING himself, dynamic little butterball director of the N. G. L., the Europa was caught ignominiously by the current and swung directly across the stream. Forty-five minutes later, her black hull righted, the Europa slid down the Elbe and out to sea, while SUMMING, Mayor, and aldermen clinked glasses in the fashionable Restaurant Jacobs.

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