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ATLANTIC. CLEAR ADMIRAL CRADBOCK'S REPORT '. ... MARTIAL LAW IN PARIS ' GERMAN CABLE CUT BETWEEN EUROPE AND* AMERICA
("N.Y. Evening Post," August 12.) _ Sir Oristopher Cradopk, who flies his flag on the British cruiser Suffolk, now off the port of New York, has announced ihat tho western Atlantic Ocean is clear for shipping in the area as far south asthe Island of Trinidad. His announcement was made public to-day by R. L. Nosworthy, Acting Consul-Genoral of Great Britain. _ ■ Mr. N,osworthy said that Admiral Cradock's message was most reassuring to British shipping. Hβ said he could not make public the message in its entirety, as it involved the movements of the British fleet here. " The Consul also said there were five British warahips in tho western Atlantic, and intimated that these had thoroughly patrolled this part of the ocean. All the British shipping offices have been assured that there is now practically no danger in tho transatlantic lanes. It ie assumed, from the Admiral's statement, that the German cruisers have been driven south of Trinidad, and will be heard of next at some South American port. Steamers Held Up. The British cruisers are maintaining a strict patrol not many miles from New York, according to reports made by captains of incoming steamships. The Suffolk was reported at intervals from ten o'clock last night until four this* morning in the vicinity of the month of Ambrose Channel,. Several pilots eaw tho cruiser.' One of thp vessels that had-an experience with the patrol waa the Norwegian tanker Conrad Molir, from Bergen and Shields. The steamship's captain said lie'was hailed last night by. a threefunnelled cruiser. Apparently . the steamship did not stop or reply as quickly as the cruiser desired, for a shot was , fired across her bow within a short interval of time. The steamship left on her transatlantic trip before war was declared., and her. officera were as- . tonjshod at the summary action of the. cruiser." They stopped immediately, but .were permitted to proceed after establishing the steamship's identity. At one o'clock this morning, three hours later, another bruiser exactly like the first encountered bw'e ■ down close alongside, tho steamship, fired a shot, and asked for tho tanker's name and nationality. When these were given Hie steamship was told to . go ahead. The Conrad. Mohr was west of Nantucket when she was hailed by the first cruiser, and off Montank, when tho second,one stopped-her. v , London Dispatches. It is possible that the Suffolk is waiting for dispatches from England. Yesterday one of her boats boarded the incoming British steamer Now York Oily, and left dispatches with tho captain for the British Consnl at this port: These dispatches may have been, for, London, and l may have required an answer. ■ ' ■ . . The British steamer Ausonia, from Glasgow and Moville, with 125 second cabin and 117 steerage arrived at New York to-day. She steam* ed every night with lights out, but saw no , hostile war vessels'on the voyage, i Another steamship, the Danube, of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, slipped into port minus her quartermaster, and with a substitute crew composed largely of negroes. Officers and passengers brought home stories of war-timo difficulties on the sea, martial law in Jamaica x and Bermuda, and prophecies of a fight in the near future between. German and English naval" in Southern waters. ; ;■ - The vessel cleared from Southampton* before the declaration of . war, atid came to New York, by way of ( the West Indies, stopping at Barbados, Trinidad, Colon, Jamaica, aud other ports. , In the middle of tho night, on tho iun north from Jamaica, the Danube sight-; ed the three smokestacks of a Germsn warship, bolievcd to bo the cruiser Dusden. ' ■ ." ! . . > English Ship's Adventure. The fact that nil lights wc.ro out above tho water-line, and a 'jirck shift of course saved the English ship. Apparently the foreign vessel pasoed with-, out the knowledge of the Danube's pre-; sence, and thereafter the latter- tmnd clear running to New York. •■ : The Danube's .commander, Captain S. W. Plunkett, said he was convinced that the Suffolk was cruising, fvick and forth off the entrance of New York harbour to protect -English vessels. Ho received word, ho said, that the Suffolk came up to the Ambrose Channel lightship at 1.40 o'clock, and again at •! this morning. Because of the haze he d'd not ; see her himself. A wireless message that the British cruiser was < near by persuaded him to burn lights agi\in, although for four nights, since leaving Kingston, the Danube had sailed wivhout a light. ' , ■ . Martial taw at Jamaica. Martial law, according to the Danube's officers, prevails at. Jamaica, and, all news is censored. On arriving at Kingston .- orders were received to remove the wireless apparatus. Royal Naval reservists were-taken from the Danube's crew and , engine-room force. They were to wait for the next ship returning to England. Substitutes were taken aboard, and an able seaman filled tho post of quartermaster satisfactorily, so that the Danube was well handled, her officers said. On leaving Jamaica the Royal Mail steamship was permitted to rig up her I wireless again, but the- rule of safety in secrecy required the dousing of every porthole light. It was reported that the English were turning 'both Jamaica and Bermuda into the greatest possible use, , ■'.'•' "Both ports," said one of the Danube's officers, "aro used as coaling and prize stations. The, Royal Mail Steam racket Line keeps thousands, of tons of coal at Jamaica, but as we are in tho service of tho Government, British warships simply step in'and help-them-selves. Fortunately, the Danube had plenty of fuel for .the present trip." PACIFIC CRUISERS WRECK REPORTED. SOME CONFLICTING SPECULATIONS. - ' Wreckage picked up by a lifeguard on the coast near San Francisco during tho second week in August gave riso to a report that a British cruiser had been, wrecked or destroyed. The following messages on the subject were published in the New York "Evening Post" of August 11:— San Francisco, August 11.—More meefcago from a British vessel, which to-day is established to have .been a nian-of r war, was cast' up by the early flood tido in tho neighbourhood of tho South Shoro Life Saving Station. Two white wooden cabin doors woro found, bearing on bright brass plates, "Navigating Officer" and "Gunner." Captain Brotnbcck, of tho Southsido JLife Saving Station reported finding
late last ffight a large piece of wrecki ago on the beach between the life-sav- ' ing station and Ocean Boulevard. , I That .wreckage consisted of several : doors painted white and highly varn- ! ished, windows, with heavy shutters, also • white, and a quantity of planking. The . wreckage was partiallv ; shattered, and t had the appearance or having been in an explosion. ; I One of the doors bore a brass plate, ; with the inscription: "Ship's Library." i The Rainbow belongs to the naval - division, of Canada. She was built in ; 1891, bought for naval purposes in 1909, and converted into a cruiser. She js a > sheathed and coppered vessel, and car- . ries a light armament of two six-inch [,guns.and some secondary guns. I The Nurnberg. ' The German cruiser Numbers is a ■ protected cruiser built in 1905, and in • addition to ten four-inch guns, is \ equipped with two torpedo tubes'. : • A German man-of-war, with three 1 stacks and tyro military masts, was sighted sixteen miles outside the Golden Gate at 10 a.m. to-day. Taken in connection with, the finding of flofci earn from a British warship last night i and to-day, her presence had signifi-. . cance. The description would agree . with either the Leipzig or the Nurni berg. ■ ' . Ottawa. Ont., August ' ll.—"The i wreckage cast up by the tide at San ■ Francisco is not part of the Rainbow; of that wo ate certain," declared the . naval officer to-day. It was thought i that the wreckace might be from the I Shearwater or the Algerine, small Bri- [ tish gunboats, as thore is considerable • wood in both. ! j More Speculations. 1 Washington,' August 11.—According 1 to records here the only British ships 1 in American Pacific waters are tlie small cruiser Shearwater, the eloop-of- ' war Algerine, and the cruiser Rainbow. ! - At last reports the Shearwater was' on ' the Lower California coast, and. the Rainbow departed from San Francisco with coal for a Canadian port ■. last ' Friday. 1 ■ The only enemy which might.have 1 been in the vicinity was the German j protected cruiser Nurnberg, 'which has 1 been on Mexican duty at Manzanillo, 1 but on July 29 was, reported in mid--1 Pacific, near Midway Island, anparent- ■ ly steaming for the German China sta- ' Hon. ; No news received here, to-day ' served to identify the wreckage, cast up near San Francisco. ; MARTIAL LAW IN PARIS i RIGOROUS REGULATIONS. : (Now York .''Evening Post" August 11.) Paris, August 11 (via London). — : Martial law .is being more rigorously ■■ enforced in tin's •' city, dailj'. ' The- au- • thorities. are "particularly anxious to prevent the escape of important news, I and frequently take the precaution ; of ■ tapping telephone: wires, calls on which ] can 'now be made only in' French.- It \ is explained that this insistence upon the use'of a languago familiar to the . - police has been made necessary by the fact that euspected Germans'were in 1 .the. habit of telephoning in English. ' • The restriction, however, is decidedly. j irksome to many English and Ameri- .. cans, whose knowledge of French is ; limited. The American Ambassador, 1 Myron T. Herrick, was cut off to-day ' when attempting to converse with ' friends. The diplomat was more amused '- than annoyed. j Flowers on Strassburg Monument. The crepe festoons' which for fortyj ' years .have Ming from the monument of 1 the city of Strassburg, capital of Alsace--1 Lorraine, which stands in the Place de 1 la Concorde, were torn down to-day and '■' replaced with flowers and palm branches. 1 while a tri-coloured sash was. draped about tho fipiro. Tho ceremony was conducted by 2000 members' of the Federation of Alsatian Societies ,in Pjaris. ; Joseph Sansb'oeuf, Mayor of the} Eighth ; Arrondisssment', embraced the I statue, • • and then addressing tho gathering said: "Tho hour of re-vengo for which we : have prayed unceasingly, for forty-four 1 vears has at last struck. The French army is in Alsace'. The red trousers are . again seen on our plains and mountains. 1 The gay bugles of France sounded the I charge at Altkirch and Mulhausen." • . There' were few who were not in tears > as the speaker concluded. The singing' : of the "Marseillaise," followed by • cheers for Belgium, Russia, and Engi land, ended tho ceremony. Express Services Resuming. The Northern Railways Company anj nounces that if circumstances permit > the express service from Paris to Lille, " Brussels, and Boulogne will be resumed Wednesday. The company, however, does not guarantee the service. ■ Detailed'instructions were'issued by. i the French Minister of War to-day con- ." cerning newspaper correspondents accompanying the French armies in the i field. Only representatives of the-French , Press who aro of French nationality and not subject to military duty, and corre- \ spondents of newspapers published in j allied countries, will he allowed to follow [ the operations in the field. ' ! . GERMAN CABLE CUT \ BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA. r ' Now S'ork, August 5. r Direct cable communication between ; Germany and America was stopped tot day. The German-Atlantic cable lines > from New .York to Emden, via the Azores,' were cut about 1.30 a.m. at . some point east of the Azores, pes- [ sibly by British warships. . The Comi inercial Cable Company, which operi ates tho American end ojr this line, made i the announcement of tho cutting tol day, and refused to accept messages for, • Germany. It was denied that the 'ines L had been cut by British warships on this side of tho Atlantic. The' cable was working,, according to announcement, as far as the Azoros. The cutting of- tho German cable; between Emden and the Azoros virtually ccmplotes the isolation of Germany from communication, with ve OHts : do world, except in so far as messages may be oxchanged by wireless. Tho last direct Berlin message re--1 ceived by 'the Associated Press was b?- ' bween twelvo and ono o'clock this ' morning. ■ NEWS AND THE CENSORS , AMERICAN PROTESTS. i Nothing could hotter set foilh tho I difficulties under which responsible ,' newspapers aro reporting the progress 3 of tho war in Europo than the iof'oiv- ) in;: "note to editors" sent -u!/ by the , Associated Press to-day over ►."••n sig- - iiiit-uro of Melville E. Stone, its general manager, says the "Now York Tost," > of Aiißust 11. > The delax of .which Mr, Stone Bfieakg.
affects all othor foreign news service equally; and still more- the special dispatches of individual correspondents, which ordinarily havo to yield precedence to those of tho Press Associations. Of course, no such obstacles stand in the way of the reckless fabrications which are manufactured in Now York city I Attention is called especially to the fact that there is practically no communication whatever with Germany, or Austria—a fact which in itself is answer to those who accuso responsible newspapers of "suppressing news, from Germany." ' Mr. Stone's uotico follows : . The Associated Press. Now York, August 11, 1914. , Note to Editors: Advices to tlio Associated Press from London' state that an increasingly rigid censorship is. being imposed on' all ,, matter from Brussels. /.Phis increases tho delay on such dispatches as are allowed to como through. The Fronch Cable Co., which, except t'liose with, terminals in • the -British Isles, is the only direct lino to Europe now in operation, has given notice that the congestion on its lilies is suoh that all messages are subject to a minimumdelay of forty-eight hours. Inan effort to avoid tins delay.direct dispatchee of the Associated Press from Paris are l-eing routed through London, but the delay there is also very great. Dispatches which left Paris early yesterday are being reoeived with a delay of from -fifteen to seventeen, or more Hours, and other Paris dispatches have sullered oven greater delay in transmission. ' There- is absolutely' no direct communication with Germany or Austria by any routing. A few consoreo. dis. patches are coming through via London, and those are re-censored for transmission out of England. The. Associated Press has been making every effort to communicate with. Germany through the Wireless companies operated irom New York. On Sunday ,a message was sent to the Berlin bureau of the Associated Press, and the wireless company notified us that', it had been received in Germany, but since tli,en only fragmentary aignals have been exchanged over that system. Inabijity to secure wireless communication with Germany since the cutting of the direct German cable at the outbreak or the war and tho increasing rigour of the London censorship still further obscures what has actually transpired within tho military zone. (Sgd.) MELVfLLE S. STONE, General Manager the Assooiated Press.
STRANGE MESSAGES
IN i CANADIAN PAPER. In the Montreal "Star" of August 5 there appeared sensational messages about fighting in Holland between the Dutch and the Gerinans. ■As local uewsi.it-was stated: "L. B. Heward, K.0.N. , Consul for the Netherlands, this morning received an official cable to-the effect that the Dutch troops had inflicted a severe defeat upon the German troops, who invaded Holland in an effort to,reach France. The cablegram contained -nothing but the terse notice of a splendid victory, with the fact that the Dutch captured a number of lieary guns." ' - .•■■■'■. : On the same page as the above item, a cablegram from London read as follows :—"Germau troops have crossed, to Dutch soiPat Eijaden. Hollanders are desperately fighting the invaders. There is heavy cannonading.. U. is feared the casualties will be heavy." "'■! In another portion of tlw same journal there appeared a cablegram, which »aid:—"Amsterdam, Holland, August is._ Germany has violated Holland in an attempt to' rush troops across to aid in the invasion in Belgium. I'ierco fighting is in-progress, the Dutch ti-oops falling back slowly before a.steady German advance. Tho losses on Loth sides are heavy." ■ ~;.,.,. -, .-.
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