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libel on Liner G, Washington Filed in Britair Action for Damages Due t* 1918 Collision Threaten Seizure of Big Craft Not Under U. S. Mail Co. Fla Ship Board Will Protee Pocahontas Is Released a Naples: Receivers Issm Pa>*enjrer Traffic Appea the steamship <;. ? . a libel filed in * i Britis ?: irta at Southampton to sat #-: .. '?' : V ? triers is threatened accord ?ag ? . [vices received yesterda; s for the receivers o the l'::te.i Stat< s Mail Steamship Com pany. The George Washington wa dae a'. ?"-' it :-. :pto:r yesterday. On rcii .ct of the information Di Lancey Nicoll jr., of counsel for thi receivers notified William Marshal , s .r. charge of the govern - in the Mail case. >?' : ? .-_- Board a: Wash ? ?_-- . view of instructing thi -ntun u r.~ the "release of th( the Asiat;; ? on Company, which eh arg v that 1 Gei rge WashingtoT : ; ?uary 10, 1918 ' crew, was ir ?- company's steamship Nizan, h and from New York to Franc? ?.v rlour. grain and fuel oil. A s railar line; was filed in the . istr -'. Court in New York . by Lord. Day & Lord, of 19 Wall Street, attorneys :'ir the .V I - ?ompany. Adds to Complications Th<? ?; the United :? ( lompany reeeiv hc tying ? ,-o Washington r g I ional c implication tu ? over the nine gteam ? . ? the Mail cempany ^ Board. The George V\ ; i-arried President peace conference, is one - - ized by the board in by order of court ? - receivers ior the Mail The 4. iast year was not American courts be ? -.? " was under the government. The faut - - own . 1 ? :-? England identical ? - . thai ? mpany i rita ?ut i izan, of 5,000 tons pr,--, while j thi ' S S. Chat ga, '????as struck "a glancing blow tit r.or stem and then n by a rebound." The Washing . 1,000 pounds damaged vessel, which was ordered back to New York, the '. aint says. r '. t waa ''"c!ared. "was to and <-a-:;ri ?olely ry the '?? c:?:.rrsh;p >se in :harge A ? a r. A ?-" rd of [nqu ? : George -. it war, s: ' the ? ?? flftc -. rd said they had received no information of, any action in England. Offices of the Mail receivers were i tr.in.sf rrcd yesterday fr-jm 120 Broad- I way to the building occupied by the I Shipping Board. It was given out that ? the receivers and the Shipping Board! intend to "v.ork in full cooperation to I put the Mail line on its feet." Mr. Bullitt. returned from Washing ten, where he talked with Chairman Lasker and Elmer Schlesinger, general counsel for the board. It was learned. an agreement had bren roachtd whereby the receivers will be given a definite period of time to decide whether they intend to fulfill the com? part of the contract whereby the line vessels were Allocated to the Mail I ine or whether, in the event of an un- j profitable receivership, the ships will ? be returned to the government. As indicating their purpose to run j the line as a going concern Herbert j Moble and Emmett J. McCormack, the i Sivers, issued a statement appealing I or passenger business. This state-, ?? .-aid in part: | "We hope to provide for the patrons 1 the 'ine even a better service, than he? re. We shall cooperate fully with the e i Staves Shipping Board for this ? 'pese and expect to receive from the i rd in turn its full cooperation." TI e steamship Pocahontas, another of the vessel.; allocated to the Mail, which was libeled at Naples and threat? ened with sale to satisfy claims of 1,100,000 lire for coal, supplies and re? pairs, has been released. Mr. Noble. said a bond for the vessel had been provided. "High and Dry" Lot in Swamp, Woman Charges Complaints Ordered Against President and Salesman of Housing Concern After hearing the testimony of Mrs.. Bertha Lewis, of 765 Eighth Avenue, as to two lots she had purchased in Metuchen, N\ J., 1"rorn the Irving Homes my, Magistrate Mancuso, who is conducting a John Doe inquiry into cuestionable real estate deals, ordered complaints to be drawn up against Samuel Germain, president, and a salesman known as Mr. Stillman. Mrs. Lewis's story was that she had been the winner of a lot in one of the company'^ real estate contests and that Stillman had induced her to buy another. She paid $49 "fees" for the lot she won in Metuchen and was to pay J'jOO at $5 a month for the oth iv. Both lots, she says, were certified "high and dry" by Germain. Stillman, it was testified, then went to Mrs. Lewis and said he could seil one lot at once for $1.000. She nearly all of her savings out o b ink; paid Stillman for the lot and then ? .? . when the d eds were deliverc . she declared, that the described ; rop erty was in a swampy corner of a wood, far from the site she had viewi her visit to Metuchen. 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