INCIDENT OF UNPRECEDENTED GRAVITY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13978, 7 January 1916, Page 5

INCIDENT OF UNPRECEDENTED GRAVITY.

London, Jan. 3

The death of Mr. McNelly, American Consul-General to Aden, will probably provoke an incident of unprecedented gravity in the Germano-Ameri-can controversy. The young man was engaged to-be mdrried, and was taking up his first official, post. tHe intended taking an earlier - steamer, but he was so ■ fascinated, with London- that Ec remained longer. 'If; he is. lost he-will bo tfie first official American victim of Hun piracy.1

A personal friend of the American Consul-General, who is urgently cabling

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LonSon for particulars, intimates thai: Charles ©rant, a Boston man, was also on board.