New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-08
FOUR LINERS READY
TO RISK CAPTURE
international Mercantile
Marine Will Send Quar-
tet Out To-day.

-Four steamships Of the international
Mercantile Marine Company will brave
tho risk of capture by sailing to-day
for Liverpool.
The Olympic, with the smallest pas.
senger complement she ever carried VIII
get under way some time between ~
n m. and noon. She has $50 saloon oo
second cabin and about 200 steerage
passengers. -, Lo, car-
ceIIed the Adriatic, of the same lhe,
has been ordered out, and VIII depart
The Minnehaha, Of the Atlantic
TRANSPORT Line, which is in the Lonuoh
and New York service, may go TO Ll'eI-
pool. but as she is spiendlu tIoVp
ship she NAV be ordered to LONDON az
rect AS practically the entire o1'en,
il mined, the British ships nave peeI
instructed by the Admiralty 10 20 ~
liverpool Even the Red star my.
Vaderland, with 700 Belgian reserv'T ~
on board, will not RISK capture ~
steaming for Dover and Antwerp, Du.
will also seek Liverpool as temporary
haven. -. toars can't
ure. especially the Olympic whieh oa
develop a speed OF Z6.oo hHo raj
/ leave behind any German cru''ei
NAV be in these waters. 49,. ans
'"' iu tbe vessels have taken the Gus
- ~ nrocautions to avoid being seen
aV"rGa The Adriatic. Vaderland ana
W;nnohaba are not as fast as the Ger
nan cruiser Dresden and could eaSiS
/ bo overhauled. but it is the generai De,
iiof in the Offices Of their owners tnat
tbe Dresden is out OF coal, ana mas
',ono south in an effort to procure
ss,ynnIv from some steamship mat may
ba,e conc out flying the American nag
Tho White Star Line was informed
oorIv Yesterday that after conIere.io,e
| 80 fhe officers on board the BRUSH
or,,isor EsseX the Cedric, at hailaN,
IA been ordered to get under way anu
nrocoed with her passengers 10 thIS
port The Essex agreed TO act as cor
,,o,, mart way and then pick up the JUL
| hound British merchant heet'
Later the plan was reconsldered anu
oanJoned and the passengers were III
! formed that they would be sent 10 ~
VI bv train. A dispatch from tne
Witt Star agent at Halifax sta'Ci
tbat snecial train left that porF az
ronn with 21O passengers, and was que
AZ the Grand Central Station thiS IL
/ ternoon at o'clock, A.,
passenpers from the Cunarder .iau-
rotania. which will remain at nan
;ndofniteIy. will arrive here to-day on
three snecial trains, the first OF wnleh
- ovnected at the Grand Central Sta
lion ar D. m. This train left hau-
fav AZ noon. The second train, wnlcn
danarted two hours later, is due at +"
- y, No news has been received con-
Corning the departure of the third Speo-
ciaI hut il is looked for about ~
p. m. r.;.o,io cont
uireless message to the Cunard OIL
/ fee Yesterday saying that all on ooI"i
wore we'll and that the big fier was
steaming splendidly at top speed. lhe
: skinner was careful to give nos posi-
ton.
nv the Fabre Line (Frenchl that us
/ sfeamsbin SAINT Anna would sail to-
dav for Marseilles, her home port. Her
Recommendations are all taken ny
French reservists. She was cleared
/ Yesterday at the Custom House, giving
| Ler mort of destination as Marsellles.
} Conditions may compel her to change
her course if there is any possibility
OF her being captured before making
Gibraltar. She may land her passeni-
gers at Liverpool if it is thought adj
disable for her to avoid the Medlfet-
ranean.
Captain Naylor of the British steam
: ship Scottish Prince, reported on az
rival Yesterday from Trinidad that he
heard heavy firing at a. m, when ne
was about sixty miles southeast OF
scotland Lightship. The shots, pc
said, were fired at close intervals and
lasted for more than an hour. He saw
no warships on his way up the coast,
but was positive the sounds he heard
were from the guns of war vessel.