Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-09-26 | Page 12 | Garrison Remits Fines on Liners

GARRISON REMITS FINES ON LINERS vi "A s H ISO TO X. Fpt. '27,. Secretary Garrison today decided tn remit the fines totaling approximately J5f,0,(j00 imposed on the Hamburg American liners Ypi-rartsa. Ypi-rartsa. Havana and Dania for alleged irregularities ir-regularities in their clearance papers shortly after the American occupation of Vera Cruz. "The fines were imposed, broadly spvaking,'" said a statement issued by Se-rernry Garrison, "because the vessels had iinon their manifests prvkases of i-arTO C mainly wire, carbolic acid, railway :T,a tc-riai and arms and ammunition) which v'tp consigner to tlie port of Vera lY'-z, but were not unloaded there- As a rratter of fact, in each instance the pack-nzr pack-nzr in ouest'.on were unloaded at another an-other port in the republic of Mexico."