Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — THE LION GROWLS. [ARTICLE]

THE LION GROWLS.

The New York’* Flag Excite* Hl* Latent Kage. In the House of Commons at London. Tuesday, William G. Cavendlsh-Bentick member for Penrhyn and Falmouth,asked whether the. attention of the Admiralty had been called to £ recent celebratlou at New York, at which President Harrison was present, when the flag of a steamship that had been built and subsidized as a Queen’* cruiser had been lowered and the flag of the United States hoisted In it* stead. Mr. Shuttleworth, Financial Sec retary to the Admiralty, replied that there was nothing to prevent tue. transfer of a British mercantile cruiser to a foreign country after the period for which a subifdy hud been granted her had cla]*sed.