AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 4 September 1914, Page 8

AMERICA

THE KRO.NI'RIN/I WlLllELif. New York, .September 2. MrCourtcnay Dennett, British Consul states that lie understand* thai; tho Kronprinz Wilhelm has been captured by cruisers, but tile report is unconfirmed. |Tim Kronprinz Wilhelm is the big Norddenlscher-I.loyd steamer, of 14,!>08 tons, with a speed of 23 knots, which was stated to be acting as a wireless relay station in mid-Atlantic] Lisbon, September 2. The authorities at Lorenzo Marques found the seals of the wireless room on the Kronprinz broken. They therefore dismantled the wireless installations on all the'detained ships. Times and .Sydney Sun Services. New York. September I!. Americans have; chartered the liner Hamburg for a Red Cross hospital. She is sailing for England, to help the wounded of all nationalities. [The. Hamburg is a 10,5*1- ton boat, owned by the Hamburg-Amerika Line.] PURCHASE OF GERMAN VESSELS. Washington, September i. Tho .secretary of the Treasury, .Mr. W. G. M'Adoo. before the Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representatives, which was engaged upon a measure to enlarge the United .States marine, stated that oil nation could challenge Hie right of the United Slates to purchase any ships it liked for neutral use. The Jlritisli and French protests against the buying of German ships. Mr M'Adoo held, were groundless, as the ships were really bought by private owners, and not by tiie Governuient.