Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1914 — BRITISH RESENT AMERICAN ACTION [ARTICLE]

BRITISH RESENT AMERICAN ACTION

Note of Inquiry Sent to State Department About Dismantlement of Wireless on Collier. Washington, Dec. 21.—A note of inquiry has been addressed to the state department by the Mritish government in regard to charges which that government says Col. Goethals had admitted were baseless, against the conduct of certain British colliers,' in the waters of the Panama. The communication implied that the British ship was harshly treated. So far Secretary Daniels has been unable to learn just what led -to the dismantlement of the radio apparatus of a British collier, at Panama canal, even the name of the ship being unknown. He has ordered a full repprt, which will be laid before the state department as a basis for its answer to the British government. It was suggested by some naval exp rts that radio messages sent by British warships in the Caribbean directly across the Isthmus to other British naval vessels in the Panama Zone might have .been attributed by the operators in the naval wireless tower on the Isthmus to British colliers, lying in Canal waters.