Evening star., 1914-08-23

I STAR, WASHINGTON,
age passenger. rode from Berlin to Idege
in a freight car. She lost all Of her bag
When she left Berlin. she said, the bag
gage Of refugees was heaped up IN front
Of the railroad station in piles sixty feet
high.
DR.. S. W. Morris of Tacoma, Wash.
another steerage passenger arrived In
New York with $1.S0 and the clothes he
had on. A friend met him at the pier
with large roll of bills which the doc
tor asked for by wireless when the Bal
tic was of Fire Island this morning.
Warship Escorts Liner.
The Baltic was conveyed by the British
cruiser Essex from the middle of the At
lantic to short distance outside the
three-mile limit. Passengers said the Of
ffcers of the Baltic told them the Essex
was travelling eighty miles in advance.
Just Off Sandy Hook the passengers saw
the British cruiser as she passed on her
way out to sea again
All the passengers on the ship praised
the British government for its efforts to
ease hardships of stranded Americans.
committee in London and Liverpool and
the consular service made every effort to
care for returning Americans.
Win every stateroom crowded with
homecoming Americans the Campan1a
OF the Cunard line is due here tomor-
row. Many Of her passengers were trans
ferred from the Aquitanfa when the lat
ter was pressed into service by the
British admiralty.
About 1000 American and Canadian
tourists sailed from Glasgow today for
America. There are now only few tour
lists left in the Scottish city.
Ships Crowded by Tourists.
The Cunard liner Campania and the
American line steamer ST. Louis arrived
tonight from Liverpool filled to their
utmost capacity with returning Ameri-
cans. The Campania- brought 654 cabin
and 345 steerage. and the st. Louis 66S
cabin and 45S steerage passengers. All
the steerage passengers on the st. Louis
and almost all of the Campania's were
Americans who were unable to get bet
ter accommodations They were glad to
get home and were not complainingt
about anything. Many were penniless
and had only the clothes they wore.
Others had a little hand baggage and
some had trunks.
Ambassadors Among Passengers.
Passengers on the St. Louis included
Spring-Rice, and the French ambassador
Jules J. Jusserand.
On board the Campania was Arch
bishop John ]. Glennon of st. Louis.
In the Irish channel the Campania
passed about twenty submarines, which
the passengers at first thought to be
whales. This morning. about forty miles
west of Nantucket, British cruiser
passed her. The St. Louis saw the same
cruiser in latitude 1929 longitude 71.2O
One passenger on the Baltic who was
obliged to start as steerage passenger,
dations after the vessel had been at sea
few days, was B. S. Biddle of the Phil
adelphia family of that name. Just be-
fore war broke out he. was in st. Peters,
burg with party Of Philadelphia friends
They started for England July ~ an6
made their way through Finland, where
they took a steamer for Bergen. They
were successful there in getting trans
portation on steamer flying the Swe-
dish flag to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
British Patrolling North Sea.
Mr.. Biddle said he judged from the fire.
quency with which they were stopped by
torpedo boats that the British fleet was
patrolling every part of the North sea.
The steamship Oceana, which will sail
from New York for Genoa, Italy, August
70. to bring home Americans stranded in
Europe, will be the first foreign vessel
purchased by Americans and sailed under
the American flag under the provisions
of the new shipping bill, SO far as is
known here.
Announcement of the use to which the
Oceana is to be put was made today.
She flew the British flag until purchased
recently by the Delaware-Hudson Steam
ship Company, and was to have been
operated between New York and Ber-
muda, beginning October l. She has been
rebuilt at a cost of upward of 100000.
Comment of Ambassadors.
Both the British and the French am
bassadors left for Washington at mid
night.
81 can't discuss the war or affairs
at home" said Sir Cecil Spring-Rice,
but do wish emphatically to COM
mend the action of Americans in Eng
land in their recent distress. The
Americans did not lose their heads,
tinctly irritating for them to find that
ship after ship Cancelled it's passage
The American committee did and is
doing splendid work together with
1h0dSSdoOi d6S anu Lne embassy
staff. who have worked incessantly."
Mr.. Jusserand said there were no
diplomatic matters to adjust between
the United States and France.
I'VE know the fair spirit of the
United States and that they are law
abiding, as we are, and treaty observers
as we are" he said. France intends
to fight to the last This war has been
thrust upon us. for we did everything
possible to prevent 1t when the Rus
slams and ourselves had put pressure
on Servia to accept every possible con-
ditfon that Austria had imposed. Servia
accepted them all; only one they could
not accept outright-they did not re-
1ect it-but referred it to The Hague
Our hopes had been that Germany in
her turn would say good word in
Vienna in favor of Servia and those
conditions would be accepted. No such
thing took place. SO war was declared
by Germany. then Russia, then France,
and the first military action, consist
ing of the violation of Belgian neu-
trality. which Is guaranteed by the
most sacred treaties ever signed"
Eleven Thousand Homeward Bound.
Eleven thousand American refugees
| were homeward bound today on steamers
| OF the international Mercantile Marine
lines The White Star line Baltic, arriv-
Ing today. brought 213O. and the Ameri-