New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-10
REFUGEE EXODUS
RELIEVES LONDON
Crowd of 2,7OO Americans,
Financed by Committee,
Sail for Home.
PASSPORT NUISANCE
BLAMED ON CONSULS
Embassy Also Asked to Invests
gate Misleading Advices
Given Nationals.

Iordon. Sent e.-Fully 100000 has
heen Maid out in the last FIVE days 70
American refugees, according to h. =.
Hoover. chairman of the committee OF
ros,5snt Americans. which indicates the
Institution Of the thousands who nave
orrived from the Continent during tha'
time.
There was a lull to-day, the German
rains being held up by troop move
morts Mr. Hoover said the relief COM
mittee always knew when the Germans
were mobiizing, because the refugees
were suddenly held up. lie said;
"This delay will not add to the e%-
eheouers Of the refugees, who probably
have been marooned somewhere in Ger
many. but no one is able to say where.
At least, they can't be much more oesVl-
tute than some who have Deeh COMING
out"
II helped the situation temporarily
~ have 700 leave to-day for America,
and bv the end of the week. II others
do not come pouring in before them
the more needy will have been sent OH
their way. ,.-
Some have come in with certificates
OF American residence only, and
number of these were hardly able 70
sneak word Of English. The embassy
also has been asked to investigate com
plants that the consuls in different
places on the Continent had advised
Americans to remain there when IT
was possible to get out, and this was
brought TO the attention of the com
mittee by English tourists, who sald
that Americans we're marOOned IN GER
tain sections Of France and SwltzSr-
land because they had been. told by
consuls that il was impossible TO get
out,
An American negro came to the com
mittee rooms to-day TO know II Jack
Johnson was among the list Of retu-
gees. He was told that the pugilist
had been seen in town, but had not
registered. Johnson was seen this al
tcrnoon in a steamship office, and the
report spread that he was inquirlng
about Transatlantic accommodations.
Johnson drove away in his big automo-
bile. Tic poses on prominent corners
every day, always drawing curious
crowd.
William Coffin, the American Consul
General at Budapest, arrived in Lon
don to-day from the Hungarian capital,
bringing with him his wife, who has
been mi. They will start for America
as soon as possible.
Americans going TO Italy, according
20 information received to-day by Rob
ert p. skinner, the American Consul
General in London. from Thomas Nell
son Page, United States Ambassador
AZ Rome, must have their passports
vised by Italian consuls.
Among the passengers sailing from
England to-day for the United States
was Irving Hirsch, Of Charles City,
Iowa, who had just arrived here from
Bucharest. He said that when he left
the Rumanian capital the sympathy of
the people there was strongly Hun
garian. In his opinion it was only the
Austro-Hungarian reverses that was
keeping the Rumanians out Of the con-
iict.
An Englishwoman, who has Just re-
turned from Hamburg, says there are
still nearly thousand English people
detained there. The American Consul,
she said, was extending the refugees
every help and giving those needing
money daily grants of mark each.