LOIE FULLER IN WAR PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 262, 15 April 1915, Page 6

LOIE FULLER IN WAR PERIL.

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. I Loie Fuller, the famous dan.or and actress, has been achieving enormous head-lines in the American Press on the strength of her war experiences in the vicinity of Yprcs, where she lias been superintending the work of a convoy of automobiles and nurses, engaged in bringing in the wounded and giving first aid. "My adventures on the way from Paris to New York, via London and Liverpool, were such as seldom fall to the share of the. man or woman, who in modern times crosses the Atlantic," said Miss Fuller to an interviewer from tile Ran Francisco Examiner. 'As it was, we should have left France earlier. Of necessity we had to take the last boat which was allowed by the French authorities to cross between Boulogne and Folkestone after the Germans had declared their submarine blockade. True enough, the blockade proved to be no idle boast, for we had barely put to sea and the vessel was just beginning to roll to the short, choppy waves of La Manche, when we i| Were attacked. I ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE. I "A submarine, coming on us in the I afternoon, deliberately attempted to I sink the little Channel steamer and f its load of men, women and children refugees. We were miraculously I Raved, the torpedo which was fired at us passing 20ft. from the ship's bows, according to the officers. "Arrived in England, I had to wait five days in London, all shinping being tied up. and then proceeded to Liverpool, where I went aboard the New York of the American Line. "ft is impossible to describe tße tense expectancy which reigned. At ! midnight, the New York was suddenly illuminated from stern to bow, bucli as ho one had ever seen on the good old iship. Searchlights also were played on the American flags fore and aft. a. LIGHT ON SHIP'S NAME. I "Two sailors were tied to rope lad- I tiers and slung over the bow of the ship, and with powerful lanterns illuminated the painted name. New York. In front of us, darting hither and tliifbr-v. crossing and mnrssing with the speed of express trains, were two torpedo destroyers of the British Navy. ' Behind us, two destroyers were continually executing the same manoeuvre, covering every inch of our wake. " And now I was informed of the why ] and wherefore of the precautions, which j required a fleet of battleships to bring into safety a vessel flying the American flacr. The captain of the New York stated that the following wireless had been intercepted: 'Attack without warning; spare none and leave no trace behind.' FEARED A TEST CASE. ' I ] "We -understood that, being the first j Vessel to run the blockade, and flying the American flag, we were to be made a test case of. "A moment of indescribable grandeur theft- was, when we forgot our fears. Our band, the better to show the vessel's nationality, struck up the patriotic songs and anthems of America. One after another, amid scenes of immense enthusiasm, there rolled out defiantly over the dark waters the strains of' The Star-Spangled Banner,' ' Dixie,' and of 'Marching Through Georgia.' " The real meaning of all those ex- | traordinary precautions, in addition to saving our vessel, was to appear a few hours later. Then, in the wake of the New York, immediately behind our rearguard of destroyers, fVre loomed up through the night, stc: "':g out of the i harbor cleared by us, t'le forms of nine ' great battleships—the British Dread- I noughts on their way to bomhard the j Dardanelles! All got out safely, and i the next day, well out in the open sea, the, last of the line of battleships, headed for the Straits of Gibraltar, signalled ■ lis a farewell, and our sailors got out of the lifeboats, where they had been for 24 hours at a- stretch." NOT ALLOWED TO' WEEP. GERMAN WOMEN MUST KEEP BACK THEIR TEARS. "KRIEG SBUTTERBROT." In an article appearing in a recent ; Issue ef the Cologne Gazette dealing 5 with the improvement in the attitude of. the German public towards the war, tlie : following rather significant passages oc-. cur: — "During 1 the first month of the war,' paving to the sudden transition from the profoundest peace to a state of war, and in consequence of an avalanche of four; declarations of war almost simultaneously, Berlin was not free from feelings < of panic, as was seen by the rush on the . Reichsbank for gold the foolish and unnecessary purchase of provisions, and the general spy mania, wnich broke out j like a new epidemic.' I To illustrate how Berlin has become accustomed to the war, the article says that, in place of the invitations which were formerly given to dinner, the peo- ; pie now issue invitations to "war bread and butter" (Kriegsbutterbrot); that is lo say, an evening meal of hot or cold food |"but the choice is more restricted, and in many cases limited to cold food." In the course of an article on the attitude of women and "iris the Cologno j People's Gazette says:—< "The fact that during the past few j months open complaints have been made nf the conduct of young women at the ; reihviiv station, that compulsory mea- , mires had to be adopted to procure the i of women in measures for ! nJ.'nrim' the feeding of the people, and I that, as occurred a few days ago a pro- ! test had to he made in the Vu---~. a'/amsf. the lani'-ntations of women who will not | I r ,,.]' inundate their relations at the front ' viih rnmidaini'i"- letter?, shows a limit-. i ~;;,'„ ~f ;,;.rv,,nii h.-»rl/..ti and interests. : for the deeper causes of which we should