We still have a small fleet of German merchant vessels, numbering some sixteen or so, in Manila Bay. Occasionally, some of them load up with coal and clear for either Shanghai, Guam or Mindanao. Sometimes they go out, but frequently they return. Our now class sic incident" of a German vessel clearing for Shanghai and instead of going there, making for German New Guinea, is of course the N.D.L. liner Prinzess Alice. She is now lying in Cebu harbour with a damaged hull. The majority say that a small British revenue cutter from Borneo put ® shell into her and forced her to run for - Philippine waters. The captain strenuously asserts that he ran aground on a
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