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Show filuLIiluali LlllLll MCI W 110 AT QCA British Auxiliary Cruiser Stops Liner and Takes Off 38 German Passengers. Shanghai, China, Feb. 19. The American steamship China, which left Shanghai yesterday morning for San Francisco, was held up on the high seas by a British auxiliary cruiser and 3S Germans were taken off. It is though sho may have been held up by the Laurentic, which recently stopped the Tenyo Maru while on a voyage to Manila, and removed nine Indians. In August of 1914 the China, then owned by tho Pacific Mail Steamship company and the Manchuria of the same company wero halted by British warships off Hong Kong and forced to surrender forty German reservists. Tho Germans took passage from Hong Kong to San Francisco and it was said they had received assurances from Washington that thoy would not be molested while on an American vessel. Officers of the China said that Great Britain, in their opinion, had acted within their rights. The Manchuria was boarded within the three mile limit. . A similar situation aroso last December De-cember when a French cruiser held up four American steamships on their way from Porto Rico to New York and removed Germans and Austrians. The United States protested and the French government released tho men. San Francisco, Fob. 19. Tho China, flies the house flag of the newly organized or-ganized China Mail Steamship company com-pany and carries tho first Chinese crew to qualify for service under the provisions of the seamen's act. She formerly was owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship company and is duo to finish her second voyage under her new ownership March 7. Her net tonnage ton-nage is 31SG. Washington, Feb. 19. Similar Information Infor-mation regarding tho removal of Germans Ger-mans from the American liner China has been received by the stato department de-partment from its representatives in China. No action has yet been taken by the United States, but It is probablo a protest pro-test will bo made to Great Britain similar to that made to Franco when the French Descartes recently removed remov-ed Germans and Austrians from American Amer-ican ships in the Cirlbean sea. |