Show JAPS CAPTURE LUMBER VESSEL Ship Owned in England and nd a Hailed From Portland Ore gre gret t SAILED UNDER NEUTRAL l FlAG 4 WRY IS A f FRAN FRANCISCO Sapt S exchange e hits a cable message from L ft that the steamer mer Cru Crusader bound troUt from pot for forthe forthe the far east has been the Japanese and taken to The Crusader started fran Astoria Ore Sept 2 2 for Sh Shanghai IBER Cargo Was Assigned to Merch Merchants in Shanghai anti ana Taku Portland Ore Sept British reported captured by the Japanese and taken to H Huke date cleared from this port Aug E 31 with feet or of lumber and oo bundles or of lath Her cargo was s valued at The vessel ws was under char har chartel hartel tel to the PacIfic E Export port Lumber corn com paD flatly and the cargo was consigned to merchants in and Taku j At the office of the Pacific Export Lumber company no reason fut for the re reported 1 ported seizure could be assigned The vessel was loaded with a neutral al cargo consigned to neutral ports and sailed I under a neutral thug A large portion I of her eago caro was consigned to the Paull Paul Brunet Lumber company at Tien the port or of receipt beIng Taku Th The vessels ses route would take her ver very dose to and it is surmised I It lucre t re that the vessel was from the ordinary course b by the JP Jap Japanese al anese e fleet neet engaged In e examining the papers and cargo of at neutral vessels In Inthe Inthe the far eastern waters It Is also stated at the office of the Pacific Export Lumber company that o war risk could be pla placed ed on the Crusader and that no better proof or of her bier neutrality need be had than the fact that sh sha was to stop at MoM for coal It believed is that her I commander r obeyed the order to take on oal oaI supplies it at Th The British steamer Crusader is owned by bv the Steam Shipping company compon United England |