Show Name Seems a Hoodoo That British built combination of turbine steam yacht and torpedo boat destroyer which recently slipped out of England into Russian possession named Caroline is not the first boat of that name which has caused more more or less serious international In 1837 American sympathizers ers with the Canadian rebels occupied Navy island which Is near Niagara falls on the British side of the fron fron- tier Here they kept up a running fire and to aid them In their operations operations opera opera- bought a steamer called the Caroline which belonged to a citizen of Buffalo She carried arms ammunItion ammunition ammunition ammu ammu- and even cannon So openly did she defy the law of nations Indeed Indeed Indeed In In- deed that a party of Canadians surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded her one dark night and driving ing off her crew at the point of the bayonet set her on fire and cast her adrift As the Incident happened on AmeI American can soil solI there outcry out out- was a great out outcry outcry cry at once and for a time it looked as as though the two countries would be involved in war |