The Almena

BYERS, District Judge.

These cases involve simple wage claims by foreign seamen against foreign ships, and in each instance there is an affidavit of prior appeal to the respective consuls (Danish and Norwegian) for relief, but without result upon the asserted ground that in the absence of the vessels no adjudication could be had.

*646Now that the vessels have been libeled, there is an undertaking by affidavit by the consul in each case, to function.

That the Court has jurisdiction, appears from the statute, 46 U.S.C. § 597, 46 U.S.C.A. § 597. See The Paula, 2 Cir., 91 F.2d 1001.

The claimants are now…