BRITISH CRUISER SUNK
SUSPECTED MEM KUMER
INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS
LIKELY.
NEW YORK, March 22
News from New Orleans states that the British auxiliary schooner Imalone, suspected of being a contraband carrier, was sunk off the coast in a battle with the coastguard craft.
Serious complications with Britain are a strong probability as the result of the sinking of the British schooner Imalone, says the "Washington correspondent of the New York Times.
Sir Bsm e Howard,' British Ambassador, called on the State Department to-day and told Assistant Secretary Castle that if the facts were as reported in the Press it might
prove a serious case. The sinking is without precedent in the long record of the efforts of the coastguard to enforce the prohibition laws. The outcome of the case will be influenced by the question whether the vessel was within the 12 miles territorial limit. Coastguard officials expressed cevtainty that the ship was within territorial waters. Other official circles frankly express doubt upon this point. ' diM&li'
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 68, 25 March 1929, Page 6
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