The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-08-01
BRITISH BOYCOTT
7 BELIEVED WORKING
WELL in FAR EAST
Royal Prince In From Manila,
Brings News Of Sister
Steamer
AMERICAN FREIGHT SEIZED
BY BRITISH AT PENANG
Packages Consigned From New
York to Manila Firms Are
Held Up There

Officers and passengers of the British
steamer Royal Prince, in yesterday
morning from Manila, Penang, Singa
pore and Nagasaki heard with interest
that fine of $4,000 pesos had been
imposed by the customs authorities of
Manila upon the British steamer Chin
csc Prince, of the same line, because
she did not have freight consigned ia
Manila from New York, British author
tiles at Ienang having removed it.
Their particular interest arose from
their having known of the affair in
the Straits.
Information brought by the Royal
Prince and received in later mail des
patches from the States shows that the
seizure of this cargo at Penang was
more remarkable than had been
thought from former mail advices, puv
hshed in The Advertiser last Monday
for the freight was loaded at New
q York, consigned by American firms to
Philippine firms, coming within the pur.
view of the British only because it was
in British bottom.
Stopped By warship
The Royal Prince reported that the
Chinese Prince was at Penang when SHE
arrived, having been delayed about q
week then, and waited few days long
or before departing for Manila. The
Chinese Prince was bound out of Pc.
nang for Manila when a British man,
Of-war overhauled her and forced her
to put back. Then the cargo was taken
from her.
Accounts seem to differ as to the
amount. Dispatches from Manila to
the Coast newspapers said that 1000
packages were missing when the Chin,
Csc Prince arrived at Manila. Dan
Beck, one of the Royal Prince passen.
gers. heard that two-thirds of her cargo
had been taken. Two thousa nd pack.
ages may have been two-thirds of her
Manila cargo. The Chinese Prince de
parted from New York April Is for
I'enang, Manila and Vladivostok, via
the Cape of Good, Hope, New York
dispatches said that some of the pack,
ages removed by the British at Penang
were consigned to the Bank of the
Philippines to order and some to deal
crs in. thc Philippines who were on the
British blacklist.
For German Firms
Mr.. Beck heard that the cargo was
for Behn Meyer & Co, the well known
German firm of Manila, which would
be on the blacklist as soon as almost
any other in the Far East; but J. A.
Rousseau, another Royal Prince pas.
Scnger, said that it was to order. Prob.
ably some was to order of the bank
and some cOnsiG3Cd directly to business
houses. At any rate, there can be no
doubt that cargo consigned from one
American port to Philippine port,
both, of course, neutral, shipped by
american 70 Philippine houses, has
been seized.
Fig Fine Reduced
As published before, the Chinese
Prince was fined 1.00O00O pesos, which
was reduced to $4,000. Bond was given
to release the vessel, and she departed
for Nlldivostok. An appeal was to be
taken. Honolulans will regret the pill.
kia of Captain Chambers of the Chin,
ESQ Prince, who is well known here
The vessel may come this way soon.
S"id Capt. d. Coull of the Royal
Prince
Mr.. Beck said that the blacklist
appeared to be working well in the
Orient. He aud Mr.. Rousseau stated
that business man named Katz, own
ing fine merchant business in
Singapore, who had constructed a new
building, virtually was ruined by a
boycott, although he was British sub
Ject He was Austrian born. He was
forced to sell his goods at ten cents on
the dollar, Mr.. Beck said, because no
British would buy of him, and native
trade was unimpOrtant.
Mr.. Beck himself is the owner of
merchandise houses in Manila, Java,
Shanghai and Singapore.