MYSTERY OF SEA

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 11

MYSTERY OF SEA

LOSS OF MOTOR SHIP THE ASIATIC PRINCE S.O.S. MISUNDERSTOOD United Tress Association—By Electric Telagrajili—Copyright. United Service. (Received 7th May, 2 p.m.) VANCOUVER, sth May. The fate of another splendidly equipped motor-ship is a secret kept by the Pacific. On 2-tth March the Asiatic Prince disappeared, and Lloyd's agents hero have finally announced that she is a total loss. She was built two years ago at Hamburg, and was a well-man-ned craft of C,700 tons, operated by the Futncss, Withy Company. On the date mentioned the Niagara picked up a stuttering faint 5.0.5., giving longitude and code letters 'understood as GJVIt. The message then ended abruptly. The Canadian-Australian liner's.operator was unable to hear another sound. Another liner nearly caught the same message with the same code letters, which belonged to the tanker British Hussar, believed to lie in trouble somewhere south-west of Hawaii. For several days American wai'Bhips searched, when it was suddenly discovered that tho Hussar was safe iii port several, thousand miles away. _ Wireless experts wcro .wondering, if it was a hoax, when a cablo came from Yokohama stating that the Asiatic Prince was five days overdue from Los Angeles. This gave rise to curiosity, and tho Asiatic Prince's codo letters were found to bo GJVP. The last letter could easily be sent by an excited operator to sound like the Hussar's signal. A., renewed search was then started by several tenders of the American fleet at Hawaii, but without result, and seamen are forced to the conclusion that the vessel sank on 24th March without a trace.