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Show BRITONS SEARCH NEUTRALSTEAMER STEAMER HELD UP IN PHILIPPINE WATERS BY BRITISH WAR VESSEL. Incident Occurred Off Carabon Island and is Not the First Time That Britons Have Intefered With Shipping. Washington. Violation of American neutrality by a British torpedo boat which held up and examined tho Philippine Phil-ippine steamer Cehu within tho territorial terri-torial waters of tho Philippines was reported 'to tho war department Tuesday Tues-day by Gvcrnor General Harrison. Tho dispatch Immediately was transmitted trans-mitted to the stato department and will ho mado tho subject of a vigorous protest to Great Britain. The Incident occurred one mile and a half off Carabao island. According to tho report of tho steamer's master, Lieutenant Dalles, commanding II. M. S. destroyer No. 2, boarded tho Cebu, mado Inquiries about her passengers and took both tho ship's manifest and her passenger list. Apparently tho officer of-ficer was searching for a man named Bady, who was not found. On releasing the Cebu, the lieutenant lieuten-ant mado this noto on her log: "Boarded at 3:50 a. m 9-11-1G, examined ex-amined and passed." Thoro has been more than one complaint com-plaint about tho activity of tho British vessels around tho Philippines and whllo Governor General Harrison's report re-port furnishes tho bnsls for a specific protest It Is probably that Great Britain Brit-ain will bo called upon to restrict tho operations of her patrolling squndron generally In and near tho territorial waters of tho islands. |