AMERICAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 6

AMERICAN NEWS.

TERRITORIAL WATERS.

BRITAIN EXPRESSES REGRET

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, September 20. The British Embassy, has expressed regret for searching the Philippine Islands steamer Cebu within territorial waters, as fog misled the'British commander.

PLOTTERS IN PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON, September 20.

The steamer Cebu was stopped because the British believed that Gorman plotters, who were recently active in Manila fermenting a revolution in Indih, were aboard. ’ Britain protested against the plotters being'allowed to remain in Manila’, as they were heavily subsidised by Germany,, but the United States as yet has not taken tiny action.

ON TORPEDOED STEAMER.

AMERICANS AMONG CREW. WASHINGTON, September 20. The American Consul-General, in London reports that two Americans were among the crew of the Britisli steamer Strathsay, 'torpedoed in the English Channel on September 6 by a German submarine.