SUSPICIOUS COAL CARGO.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 243, 17 November 1914, Page 7

SUSPICIOUS COAL CARGO.

BEITISH CRUISER SEIZES STEAMER. TRANSHIPMENTS AT MEXICAN PORTS. (Received November 17, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 17. The Sonoma brings news that the steamer Lowther Range, coal laden from Newcastle to Mexico, was seized by a British cruiser off Guaymas on October 11, and taken to Esquimalt (British Cplumbia). The passeugers state that there has ■been much friction in San Franeisco ow-

ing to German sympathisers shipping coal to Mexico and transferring it there to scows engaged in coaling German cruisers. [The Lowther Range is a steel screw steamer of 3926 tons, gross register. She was built at West Hartlepool in 1906 for the Neptune Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. (Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., managers). Guaymas is a small Mexican seaport on the Gulf of California, situated at the mouth of the Rio de Guaymas.]