Shipping is Safe

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 14 August 1914, Page 5

Shipping is Safe

PROTECTING TRADE ROUTES CLEARED THE ATLANTIC. HOSTILE CRUISERS WARNED AWAY Received 13, 6.5 p.m. New York, August 12. Admiral Cradock announces that the Western Atlantic is safe for merchantmen. AH hostile cruisers have been warned away by the presence of fire British warships. ■ The information reaches here through the captain of the steamer New York City, who states that Admiral Oradock asked iiim to notify the British Consul- ; General that shipping is safe. The cruiser Suffolk is now cruisin« off the New York coast. CRUISERS SPECIALLY MOBILISED. GERMAN'S KEPT ON THE RUN. Received 13. II .:>.'> p.m. Londpn, August Li i.Uorning). Tie Admiralty announced that it lias despatched a number of mobilised cruisers to the South Am<;-ic:iu trade routes, nearly trebling the superior cruiser force already there. .Twentyfour • British cruiser?, besides the French, are in the Atlantic, seeking five German cruisers known to be in" that ocean. They will be hunted continually, and though M>me lime may elapse before they are caught, they will •kj kept too busy to do mischief. The Admiralty's control of the trade rou.es, especial,)- in the Atlantic, is becoming stronger daily. Traders should confidently and boldly send their ships to sea, except in the North Sea, where the Germans have scattered mines indiscriminately.

A STEAMER REFUGING. Received 13, 5.5 p.m. i Paris, August 12. ( It is reported that the steamer Bayern, which was stated Jiy cable on the 1 tenth to be oarryin; ammunition for 1 the Gooben ami Breslau, took refuge at' \ Pozzuoli, near Naples, when it was reported that the Goeben and Breslau ] were searching foreign steamers in the Dardanelles. CHINA SEAS. i SAFE FOR SHIPPING. ' Times and Sydney Sun Services. ! Received 13," 5.15 p.m. ] „.. . Pekin. August 13. , I Shipping has resumed sailings to and , I from the north of Hon»kong.'