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Show ALLIES ISSUE WARNING ABOUT-GERH1 ABOUT-GERH1 Strange Craft Encountered ; Off Coast of Scotland Believed to Be i Enemy. IDENTITY HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED i New York Records Show That Boat May Be Namesake Name-sake of Dutch , Vessel. j HALIFAX, N. S.f Dec. 8. Entente al-: al-: lied shipping was warned by British naval na-val authorities tonight to be on the lookout for a strange vessel, believed to be a raider, which was intercepted on December 2, off the northwestern coast of Scotland, and allowed to proceed pro-ceed nudcij the impression that she was the Dutch steamer Gamma. Later it was learned that the Gamma was at Kirkwall on that date and did not leave until December 3. Identity Unknown. The identity of the supposed raider has not been determined. Admiralty officials apparently suspect that, if she is a hostile craft, she may carry mines for dropping off this port. The vessel could reach here by tomorrow or Sunday. Sun-day. The text of the warning follows: A vessel was intercepted at 3 a. m., December 2, in latitude 59:3li north, longitude 12:42 west, and was allowed to proceed, under the impression that she was a vessel named Gamma. Latter was at Kirkwall at the time, clearing 11 a. m., December 3. Identity of former not yet established, es-tablished, but description is as follows: fol-lows: About 1200 tons, black hull with red bottom, with upper works, one funnel. Thought to be plain black, no Dutch flag on bow. Ship was apparently in ballast, Bteering a course about west-southwest. Vessel Ves-sel may be raider. May Be Namesake. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Maritime records rec-ords show that there is a German steamer called the Gamma, which is of almost the same tonnage as her Dutch namesake. The Teuton craft, which was built in 1902, two years later than the Dutch vessel, has been in German coastwise service. Her tonnage is 1433, while that of the other ship is 133G. It was believed possible in shipping circles here tonight that the German steamer might have come out under her own name, after having been disguised, as far as possible, to resemble the other Gamma. The Dutch Gamma sailed from Philadelphia Phila-delphia on October 15 for Amsterdam, where she arrived on November 15. |