I’M ALONE AFFAIR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 9

I’M ALONE AFFAIR.

CANADA’S ATTITUDE. NO HASTY MOVE. (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, March 27. The Canadian Legation to-day clarified its position in connection with the I’m Alone case. The Legation emphasised that it was not defending the rum-runners, but it was determined to have all questions of jurisdiction and rights under treaties and international law definitely settled. As a result of the incident, Canada hopes that the United States will find there is no basis for resisting the demands for satisfaction, but if necessary Canada will press the case to international adjudication by arbitration. Officials at the Legation asserted that there would be no hasty move made, and that it would be a long time before any definite step was taken. It was pointed, out that at present the question was decidedly in the “fact-finding” stage. CREW ANGRY. STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, March 28. In the course of an Atlantic telephone conversation, Captain Randall, who is now at the Planter Hotel, New Orleans, told the Daily Express: “We knew what people in Old England would think when they heard we had been sunk in open seas. The crew are a wonderful lot. They’re all very angry at the treatment received. The men shouted: “To Hell with them, captain. Let the blighters sink us. We have got to die some time, and by God, we’ll die under the British flag.’ I do not suppose there are any decorations for my crowd, but they won their honours. 1 got mine in the war. The Yankees never gave us anything like as fair a chance as we got in war-time.” CANADIAN AMBASSADOR. WILL DEAL WITH CASE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 27. It has now been established that the auxiliary-engined schooner I’m Alone, sunk by the gunfire of a United States Customs cutter last Friday, was of Canadian registry, and that qpr crew were also Canadian. Mr Vincent Massey, the Canadian Minister at Washington, will therefore deal with the case, although the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, will remain in close contact with developments. CONSPIRACY CHARGES TO BE DROPPED.

(Australian Press Association.) Deceived March 30, 11 a.m. NE WYORK, March 29. A message from New Orleans states that an item in the Tribune newspaper related that it had been learned on the highest authority that the conspiracy charges against Captain Randell and the members of the crew of the I’m Alone would be dropped. FEELING AT BELIZE. BELIZE (British Honduras), March, 27. Mr G. Russell Taggart, the United States Consul here, sought police protection to-day because of the high feeling displayed over the sinking of the schooner I’m Alone. Two members of the schooner’s crew lived at Belize. The authorities are taking every precaution to prevent an attack upon the Consulate. I