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Show COCHRAH IS HOW BRITISH fiAVAL OFFICER By Special News Service. NEW TORK. June I. Alexander Smith Cochrmn. noted American manufacturer man-ufacturer and yachtsman, baa been a commander in the British navy aince laat January, It was la ted here today to-day by hia friends. It ia known that the British government offered Mr. Cochran a commlsalon'ln the nary before be-fore tbe severance of diplomatic relation! re-lation! between the United States and Germany and that be had accepted 4 commission as commander. Mr. Cochran Is In cbmmand of the Warrior, formerly one of the largest and finest steam yachts in America, which he presented to the British government. gov-ernment. The news that -Mr. Cochran had been made a British naval officer and that he was In command of the War ' rior recalled one of the most recent articles published in connection with the yacht's movements while a pri- vatPly owned vessel. Having arrived unannounced, and because the cir-! cir-! cumstsnces were ' considered suspl-i suspl-i cious by C'apt. O. R. Clark, commend- ant of the navy yard, the Warrior, with her owner, Mr. Cochran, on i board, was not permitted to enter j Pesrl Harbor, the United States naval 1 establishment at Honolulu, on November Novem-ber . 1S1. I At that time the Warrior was flying fly-ing the American colors, hut the commandant, com-mandant, investigating, learned that she was of British registry. Further Invest Igstion by the American naval authorities, it waa said, caused suspicion sus-picion when there waa found In the cabin of the Warrior a framed autograph auto-graph letter from King George of England, thanking Mr. Cochran for hia donation of motor boats to the admiralty. ad-miralty. According to accounts published the day following the action of the American Ameri-can naval authorities, Mr. Cochran denied de-nied there was anything suaplcioua in his errand or in the movements of the Warrior. He said he had come to Hawaii for the swimming at Wai-kikl, Wai-kikl, and protested against being held up by Captain Clark. Thereafter, while at Honolulu, the Warrior's gangplank waa barred and no one permitted per-mitted on board the vessel. Mr. Cochran la the owner of th Vanitie, a sloop which waa built as a defender fpr the America's cup. |