AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 77, 20 August 1914, Page 5

AMERICA

SHIPPING ON THE AMERICAN COAST. TOURISTS iioOKING HOME. New York, August 18. The Laeonia has arrived with a crowd of passengers, chiefly wealthy Americans returning from Europe. Many of the wealthiest were accommodated in the steerage. . ', The White Star liner Marquetta has arrived at Boston with hundreds of '' American passengers -from Antwerp. The captain stated that Britishicruisers •topped him six times on the voyage and fired shots across his bows. Washington, August 18. The Senate refused to open the American coastwise trade to foreign ships, but extended the American registry to any foreign-built ship demanding ' it. The House of Representatives agreed ■ to the measure. », THE JAPANESE ULTIMATUM ' ' • —■ r Washington, August 18. ■President Wilson informed press representatives that he had no reason to . question Japan's hona fides respecting ■*e transfer of Kiao-cSiiao,after ■&« Germans withdrawal. The United States, according to the President, had refused absolutely to be drawn into 'the con- ' ' troversy. _ AMERICANS HEAD FOR HOME. Received 'lO, 8.15 p.m. • - Rome, August 19. Four hundred wealthy Americans '. ' stranded at Genoa' chartered the liner Prince Pessa Mafalda for £40.000 to return home.