THE LEIPZIG PUTS TO SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 107, 29 September 1914, Page 5

THE LEIPZIG PUTS TO SEA.

NEWS FRiG'.M &W FRANOISOO.

San Francisco, August 18. Shipping inteiesta here are eager to learn whether tihc German cruiser iLeipzg, which steamed out of the harbor at 1i39 o'clock this morning, after taikiiiju iii/ coal and supplies, -will resume its of the coast., looking for onariuio prizcß, or "will proceed -toward its nearest Hag ipontj, Apia, Samoa, whither its companion in these waters, the cruisar Nuinberg, is believed to be heading. During her twenty-four hours' here tlie Leipzig was permitted 'to Utko on only 675 tons of coal, enough to talke J< r to Apia, instead of the 3KXJO tons Bib? lia<l ordered. Urnbor the neutrality laws, American porta are now" closed to the cruiser for three months, and fliippin;.; men arc inclined to bellieve that the Leipzig will not ri»k the depletion of its coal supply by .remaining off this port.

Jvlerehantmcnt of the bell.ige.remt nations, including twenty-five British bottomry are tied up here, and their sailing depends uipon (he German cruisers quitting these wafers.

The Collector of tho Port, interpreting the neutrality laws yesterday, said thai tk; prizes -vould be brought into San Francisco. This wiling was received with mush satisfaction by steamship operators. Meantime, the Japanese cruisor Idzumo, which left San Diego lata yesterday, is eteaming up the const, with the reported intention of tnigging the Leipzig about wherever ghe &'oc&

T-ho French craiser Montcalm, a mora formidaMe craft than Uie <reiinan cruiser, is believed io Vs wtandincr off this port.