MISSING STEAMER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1928, Page 3

MISSING STEAMER

VANCOUVER. May •">

News from San Francisco states, the fate of another splendidly equipped motor ship is a secret kept by the Pacific. On March 21th the Asiatic Prince disappeared and Lloyd’s agents here have finally announced she is utterlv lost. I Unit two years afio Hamburg she was a well-manned craG of (>7OO tons operated by I‘urncss, AYuiiv and Company. On the date mentioned, the Niagara picked up a stuttering faint 5.0.5.. giving longtitude ami code letters, understood as CTYR The message then ended abruptly. The Canadian-Anstralian liner’s operator was unable to hen another sound. Another liner non b onu-lit the same message and same loiters whirl, belonged to the tanker British Hussar, believed to he m troidde somewhere south-west ot Hawaii. 1 several days American warships sea, clod when it was suddenly discovered that the Hussar was safe in oral thousand miles away. 11 experts were wondering d it *;«» 5 hoax when n cable crime, from A okohama that the Asiatic I'niKc was hve davs overdue—from Los . . h; gave rise to curiosity and the I mice s code letters were found to he G.J.N •* • a,, excited operator to sound like the Hussar’s signal. Renewed search nas tbe„ ‘started by several tenders to the American fleet at Hawaii but without results, and seamen were forced to tl • *i s pin vessel sank on conclusion that tnt ' Alarcli 2-1 tli without trace.

truculent murderer, LONDON, May i. Browne is truculent, maintaining a hunger strike as a protest against ho cutting up of his food to enable him to seat with a paper mache spoon. The authorities have decided to forcibly feed him to-day.