The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-02

ADOuI. IMO w tEnN "AAU' VII AnOlliuH
Upton : steam yacht Erin started on
her voyage homek She had successfully
conveyed the racing yacht Shamrock
Nv to this country andihad lodged the
German cruisers on her way over and
had been in touch with the British
cruisers several times. She put in to
Bermuda and there the government Off
cials ordered her guns TO be dismounted
and the stack of rifles emptied AL
these firearms were to be stored below,
because, had she met German war
ship, she might have been declared an
armed cruiser and sent to the-bottom.
She had on board on her return Col
onel Dunean-F, N. NELL, British army
officer, and others who, as soon as they
got home, would join the army or navy
and serve in the war. She was ready to
leave at least a day before she finally
weighed anchor, and she waited here
for Instructions, not from her owner or
his representatives, but from the Brit,
ish authorities.
She vent out late in the afternoon
and at once got in communication with
the cruiser Suffolk and received from
that vessel the course she was to take.
Before she left the harbor she got in
structions about signals and a code
was also furnished so that she might
know whether vessel calling was
friendly or an enemy. The Erin passed
by the Ambrose channel hghtship and
then headed east until of Montauk
point, when she took more northerly
passage and got. on the lane Of the
steamers crossing from NHalifax and
then went west, She got in touch with
first one and another Of the guard yes
sells.
In Invisible Touch with warships.
It is Just the same way with the big
passenger vessels and freighters and
while those on board do not know IL be.
cause they do not see the warships, they
are in touch with the British navy yes
sells all the way across the Atlantic.
The British cruisers are patrollinp
the northern Atlantic. Further south
are the French cruisers Condo and Des
cartes and in the south Atlantic are
more British and French vessels. It il
so all over the world. Every lane, al
| far as is possible, is carefully guarded
and in this way the food supplies fol
England and for France are being safe
lly carried to home ports.
The British government has absolute
control of the wireless telegrpphy Of
/ Great Britain. No wireless apparatu
\ can be installed without license from
the postmaster.general. An Act of par
! lament was passed in 1904 and amend
ed in 1906 regulating the use of tn,
i wireless At that time it was explain
| ed that il was necessary from a naya
point of view that the government
should control the wireless and il i
from that time that conveying by wire
less was first planned and is now beinl
successfully carried out. c sf
One reason for the changing of tn
routes and keeping the course to b.
used by the transatlantic steamers |
secret, is that the usual courses in tim
of peace are known the world over and
should they still be maintained, !
would be an easy thing for some Ger
man cruiser to lie In one of these lane
and wait for some British vessel =
come along.
Other Lanes Are Established.
Now other lanes have been establish
ed They are constantly changed an
only the captains and navigating OH
GERS Of the different vessels know wha
they are. They may be far north thi
week and next week they may b
changed to some point much furthe
south. These changes, however, are no
likely to be made as long as the Ger
man cruisers which are known to b
somewhere on the Atlantic are not j
dangerous proximity to those lanes an
as long as the British have a powerful
fleet the few German vessels are nc
likely to prowl about the north.
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