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Show U-BOAT STOPS AMERICAN SHIP German Commander Orders Captain With His Papers Aboard the Submarine. ALLOWED TO PROCEED i. Advisls Officer of Narrow Escape Es-cape From Torpedo and Wishes Him Good Luck. Havre, Dec. 27, 4:55 a. m. Captain Plater of the American steamer Sacramento Sac-ramento who arrived here from Buenos Ayres with-a cargo of wheat, reports that he was stopped in tho English channel by a German submarine. sub-marine. The commander of the submarine sub-marine ordered him on board with his papers and -after examining them said: ' "You" are carrying wheat which we" consider contraband of war to France. It is lucky for you that your ship is American, otherwise we should have torpedoed yoi ,with great pleasure. You can proceed. Good luck to you." The only steamer of the name of Sacramento listed in available maritime mari-time records is reported by the New York Maritime to have been recently transferred from American to British ownership. She was blacklisted by the' British admiralty in April, 1916, on charges of aiding German ships in the Pacific, but was remove'd from the blacklist last October. a |