The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-05
TELLS HOW BRITISH
TOOK MEN FROM SHIP
TESTED AGAINST REMOVAL
OF THE PASSENGERS.
(BY associated PreSS.)

Shanghai, April 5.-Captain Frazier
! the officer in charge of the American
steamer China, which was stopped b!
/ an English auxiliary cruiser Januar!
| Is and delayed for five hours by the
English searching the ship and remov
! ing thirty-eight German, Austrian ant
Turkish passengers, has made a re
| port Of the occurrence to the lOcal
agent Of the China Mail Line of this
city.
Captain Frazier protests the action
of the British on three grounds. He
maintains the English had no right to
board the vessel with an armed force
He holds the English were beyond
their rights in removing business men
travelling between neutral ports who
had passports showing they were not
military reservists. He also objects
to the delaying of the United States
mails for five hours.
Captain Frazier demanded an ex.
PLANTATION from Lieutenant Steele, of
the British cruiser when he boarded
the China with an armed squad. The
English officer explained his action at
that time by saying it was necessary
to prevent resistance on the part of
the Germans. The English ship which
stopped the China was formerly the
White Star liner Laurentic. and has
now been converted into an English
auxiliary cruiser.
Captain Frazier's report says the
China left WOosung at three minutes
past eight on the morning of Febru-
airy IS. At HIPS the pilot left the
steamer and at 11:49 the Laurentic
was sighted The China was then
about ten miles from the mouth of the
river. The warship ran up the signal:
Stop instantly" To back I'D the re-
quest, she fired two shots across the
China's bow. The first was a blank
and the second a solid prOjectile. The
liner hove to and hoisted the Ameri-
can flag. The party that put off from
the Laurentic consisted of three Off
GERS, and nineteen men, seven of
whom boarded the vessel
The passengers of the China were
mustered on deck. Their passports
and the ships papers were carefully
examined. When the examination
was finished, the British took Off
twentyeight Germans, eight Austrians
and two Turks, total of thirty-eight
passengers. They left one German
who was paralytic. The mail car
ried by the China was not molested.
The British officers told Captain
Frazier that they had been waiting
fifteen days for the China. A wireless
message from Shanghai
TOLD them of the German passengers
on the steamer and when she sailed
The following is a full list of the
taken from the steamer:
Germans, DR.. w. Eyle, H. Fokkes. G..
Grotjahn, DR.. r. Grimm, w. Hinkle.
3. Seimssen, F. Schiefier, A. Bach, Sr.
A. Bach, Jr., w. Doerihg, A. Freder-
lex. j. Carte, A. Gertzer, X Goedecke,
Hauer. j. Jansen, R. Klein. A.
Klein. K. Kraus, X. krausch, p. Main |
Se, w. Pigulia, L. Rospeck, G. Streck- |
fuss. A. Schroeder, A. Schwartz. X. |
Tolkmitt, r. Weber; Austrians. C. |
8reekner, A. Camerle, F. Weurth, An |
on Gerl, A. Plety. w, F. Schuetter, l.
Haas, p. Zednick; Turks, j. Glickman
md l.. Mechlin.
Advices from Nagasaki say that Mr..
irotjahn had originally come from
Kobe to Nagasaki to board the vessel. /
lie learned that the China was late 4
md, fearing that he might be seized |
n Japan. he came to Shanghai and got
IN board. He fell into the hands or /
he enemy with the others. II
Twenty Germans and one Austrian