South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-20
BRECKENRIDGE TO
STICK IN LONDON
Assistant Secretary is Notified
to STAY on the JOb-TenneS-
see Liable to be Held at Fall
mouth for Sometime.

LONDON. Aug 20. ~ Henry s.
Breckinr4dge. assistant United states
secretary of war. who left London
Monday night and boarded the l.. >
$ Tennessee at Falmouth. received a
cable from SeCy OF War Garrison just
ia time The Tennessee was leaving
port enrOute for Rotterdam when the
message came Mr.. Breckenridge i'm
mediately telegraphed to Ambassador
Page saying he had received instruc-
tons 10 remain i'm Falmouth until
further orders.
How long the ship and the army
and navy officers who expected 70 be
making their way into the interior or
the continent Thursday viii be held
at Falmouth. Mr.. Breck.nridge does
not know At the embassy here We'd
nesday night it was said that the delay
az this juncture might result serioss-
Is insofar as many Americans who
are stranded in Germany are con-
cerned
Major Ketcham and Capt Dalton,
who have been appointed by Mr.
Breckinridge 20 handle the financial
end of the war departments activities
I'm London, viii open offices few
doors from the embassy in a day or
two They were engaging staff OF
clerks today and preparing 20 handle
q big crowd. So far the secretary
of the treasury has not replied to
Major Ketcham's request that all
money deposited in the treasury by
relatives and friends OF needy Amer
Jeans be transferred by cable.
Identification Causes Trouble.
But when the secretary of the
treasury does not reply said Major
ketcbam, "of course. our troubles
viii be only begun. The matter of
identification is what is going TO cause
us trouble Before we can pay any
American a penny he must prove TO
our satisfaction that ne is the man
intended To receive it, The plan is TO
have the treasury department cable a
minute description of each individual
10 whose credit money has been de
posted. This description is To include
all manner OF details-almOst as many
as under the Bertillon system. But
the difficulty L foresee is that persons
who give these details i'm Washington
viii not be sufficiently accurate to
enable as TO make the payments"
Considera bic grumblng followed
the original announcement Tuesday
that none of the money expected on
the Tennessee had arrived. But when
Americans discover they cannot get
their money because Of inaccurate
descriptions given by their friends,
something more than protest is an
ticipated Major Ketcham's idea is
that the whole thing viii result in de-
pOsitOrs Withdrawing their money
from the treasury and cabling il TO
friends and relatives here direct
More than $1,000. 600 worth of re-
turn tickets to- the United States were
held by American tourists at the out
break of the war-good only on ships
of the Hamburg American and North
German Lloyd lines. This announce
rnnnf Vvgc made "Wednesday the
American relief committee To which
a representative of the Pennsylvania
railroad came Wednesday with S25,-
GOO which is TO be used for loans
with these steamship tickets as secur-
ity The possibility of the steamship
lines becoming bankrupt and the
American ticket holders losing all the
committee hopes to obviate by Undue
ING the government TO place a lien on
the companies liners which are now
being held in American ports To cover
the total amount of the tickets held.