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...result has been accusation and counteraccusation. Ellis Island, which receives by far the greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed the House of Commons that bullion to the amount of ?3,817,232 had been salvaged from the steamship Laurentic, sunk by a German mine off the northwest coast of Ireland on Jan. 23, 1917. The Laurentic lies in 138 feet of water...
...party of Chinese soldiers boarded the U. S. steamship Alice Dollar at IChang on the Yangtsze-Kiang and asked for transportation up the river. On being refused they became violent and in the resultant fracas several shots were fired. The matter was ended by a squad...
...assembles, the Secretary intends to submit a new immigration bill embodying the features of examination abroad and registration of all immigrants entering this country. He expressed his intent with regard to an immigration policy by saying that what he is seeking is "not a foreign policy, dictated by foreign steamship companies, but an American policy, formulated by and in the interest of the United States...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...