MERCHANT SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2229, 15 August 1914, Page 7

MERCHANT SHIPPING

110 VESSELS CAPTURED TO DATE./ . BRITAIN'S BIG HAUL \ / . • ' ' London, August 13. ' The newspaper "Fairplay" states i'nat the British have captured fci-iy-four German 6teamora and eighteen • sailers, and three Austriau steamers; the French have captured four German and two Austrian steamers; the Belgians have seized thir-ty-four German, steamers and two sailers, and two Austriari steamers; and. the Russians have captured one German steamer. According .to a h'st, compiled by W Norddeutscher : Lloyd Co.; the merchant vessels on the German register in 1913 totalled 1216, of 1,345,877 gross tonnage; and most of these vessels are liable to capture. ' SUEZ MAIL REACHES LONDON. ONLY FOUR DAYS LATE. London, August 43. The Ostorley's Australasian, mails were delivered to-day. . - According to advices ,received| by the New Zealand postal authorities the mails which left Wellington on July 3 per the Mokoia and connected with the Naples dispatch, per R.M.S. Osterley, at 6ydney, arrived in London on August IS—four days late. - AUSTRIAN SHIP CAPTURED. / , (Rec. August 14, 5.15 p.m.) ' London, August 13. The Austrian steamer Mcditerrand, with a cargo of barley, has arrived ait Plymouth in charge of a naval crew.— "Times"-Sydnety "Sun" Service.) There is no steamer of the above name in Lloyd's Register, There is an Austrian steamer named the Mediterraneo, however, and' she is a steel screw steamer of 4546 tons, built in 1911. CANADIAN GRAIN SHIPS SAFE/ Ottawa August 13, evening. The Government has been assured that there is little likelihood of any grain ships being molested by the Germans., FRENCH INSURANCE GUARANTEE. ■.•'■.-'' Paris, August. 12. The Government has 'decided to guarantee the insurance of. ships where war risks havie been paid. KRONPBINZ -WILHELM NOT CAP^ ; TURED.' '•■.,■' New York, August 13.. Officers' of the incoming steamer Bernvudan confirm the news of the capture of the Gorman tank steamer Leda, which was taken to Bermuda. This establishes.' the fact that the big German liner. Kronprinz'WUheJm' was not captured. '■ AMERICAN LAWS RELAXED. v Washington,-August IS.. The House of Representatives and the Senate, after a conference, agreed to the provisions, of the Bill oponing coastwise trade to foreignrbuilt ships.