The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-10
GERMAN CRUISERS
BUSY IN SHIP LANE
American Liner New York Re-
ports Picking Up Exchange
of Wireless Messages.
TALKS WITH BRITISH TOO
White Star Olympic Goes Out
With Coal-May Be Bound
for Halifax.
TALKS WITH BRITISH TOO

That German cruisers were stll com.
mun!cating with some station or German
steamship on Wednesday and Thursday
was evident from the report of Capt. Rob
erts OF the American liner New York
in yesterday from Southampton and Cher
bourg on these days his wireless opera
tors picked up code messages that were
being exchanged. The Sayvile station
appeared to be in conversation with the
cruisers for q time. The messages were
untranslatable BY the New Yorks OPP
orators.
on Friday the New York was talking on
business purely with the British cruiser
Essex. on Tuesday last, in midocean. she
was IN communication with the British
armored cruiser Drake. which is credited
with a speed of "a knots and is suppose
to have oeen the ship that the kron-
prizessin Coc.lie feared she might en-
counter on her flight TO the eastward and
back again 10 Bar Harbor.
1t Is considered not unlikely that the
| Drake may be on her way to protect
! British and French vessels using the
steamship lane going to and from Ameri-
can ports. One OF the reasons the French
| liner La Lorraine, bound for Havre with
many French reseverists, sailed so con-
/ fdently. out OF Sandy Hook may have been
that she had assurances that there were
British cruisers out to protect her
The whereabouts at present OF the Ger
man cruisers is stll a mystery 20 folk
on shore The shippers of the North
| German Lloyd and Hamburg American
/ Line steamships locked in Hoboken say
they have not been using their wireless
to communicate with the cruisers, but II
| is pretty clearly settled that the Bar
I har ~ .. law IN
intends to clear soon. maybe for Ger
many. with much more coal aboard than
she would ordinarily need on trans
| atlantic trip The German cruisers cannot
coal AT any British port In North Amer
lea, and doubtless would not care to in
vite pursuit by stronger British warshlps
by attempting 10 coal in any other ports
May He CoaIing Mt Sea.
The feeling persists that the North
German Lloyd liner Kronprinz Wilhelm
which sailed hence last week. Is seeking
10 coal the cruisers with makeshift coal
ing gear. Nothing has been heard OF he'
since she sailed away in the darkness witt
lights yelled.
The great White Star liner Olympi,
got orders on Saturday night to put on
OF this port with all the coal she coult
crowd into her bunkers. She NATURALLY
will not use the coal for British cruisers
as they may readily coal at Halifax. Goa
Ia getting high and is going 10 get higher
o the war proceeds and what the Olym
pic does not need will be much appreci
ated probably by the British Admiralty
u is said she carried away more thar
Il 600 tons,
She can carve a course to England aver
aging more than $3.50 knots. her skipper
Capt Haddock believes, But she may no
be going 10 England She may put int
ba ptitntsp1 a Z
prey ON the enemies commerce, That h
what the Mauritania is said to be doing.
The Olympic went away unostenta
tioNsly, carrying only her officers AM
crew, about 500 men. The stewardesse
were left behind to take passage on m
, regular passenger ships. There was mis-
on the waters when she backed into tn
North River, her whistle screaming in tn
, usual way to warn craft passing up an
down the stream that they should Loo
out Down the hay she stopped near tn
bltteship Florida and naval office
went from the Florida, conferred with IN
customs inspector, who came down on tn
liner and she was permitted to pass out
sac had been cleared for Liverpool q
Friday, but she does not have TO go ther
direct,
The German oil tank Meppcn. in fror
Oporto and Corcubion, was warned b
wireless of war between tngIaud an
Germany and fearing capture by cruiser
she painted her funnel baAE and took
circu!tous course 10 max" Sandy Hool
The Trinidad line freight steamship Ma
: turL from Trinidad and Grenada, hear
wireless juniors Of German cruisers I
her COURSE but she kept right on, sight
; ing nothing whatever except the Amer
, .nn Whaling schooner John X Manti
which being without wireless was una
ware OF the existence Of war.