New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
DEPEW HEARS WAR
WILL LAST 2 YEARS
Ex-senator Says English
Military Authorities Have
No Peace Hopes.

The White Star liners Cretic and
Baltic, both from Liverpool, brought
to port yesterday 1864 passengers, the
Baltic having 1888 and the Cretic 27G.
Neither vessel encountered any difficult
ties in making the run.
Chauncey VI. Depew, former United
States Senator, returned en- the Baltic
with his wife. lie was in Switzerland
when the war was declared ard imme-
diatcly started for Paris. lie, like many
others, got that one last train out of
Geneva.
my side whiskcrs," he said, were
source of consolation in France and
4 discomforture in Germany. The Ger
mans thought those whiskers were on
an Engiisman and they were not par
ticu!ar!y friendly in their remarks. The
French saw them-the whskers-al
and hailng me as an Englishman
shouted Long live the the Triple AL
lance
81 met Richard Harding Davis, one
The Trlbunc's war correspondents, and
ne said he had been mistaken for an
Eaglishman in Belgium. The Germans
we're half convinced that Mr.. Davis was
an Englishman when they examined
his clothes and found they were OF
English make. and they watched him
continually. One day Mr. Davis told
ME he was watching a German aero.
plane lowering over the city and taking
off his hat held it against his chest
The Germans were ready TO write the
Q. +. d. on his case when suddenly he
showed them the hat, where they read
the words Knox, New York" That hat
saved him.
81 have talked with English military
authorities and they expressed a belief
that the war would last for about two
years. They said Germany would never
quit until she was brought to her
knees. The German Emperor is credited
with having promised to hang his hat
on the Effel Tower, but | fancy he has
miscalculatcd his ability in that direc-
ton"
On the Baltic came Miss Malise
Sheridan. an English actress, who is a
sister of Commander Sir Charles
Blaine, and niece of General Pitcairn
Campbell, in charge of the British
troops IN Southern England. She comes
here 70 appear with William Gillette in
Sardou's diplomacy"
My uncle told me-" said Miss Shcri-
dan, that many British soldiers have
come back to England with both hands
cut off. They were chiefly wounded
men who fell into the clutches Of Ger
man soldiers. who mutilated them that
never again they might carry a gun. A
young private of the Scots Greys, who
left Liverpool on a Sunday and par
ticipated in the battle of Mons, was
returned to Liverpool on the following
Friday, both hands being cut off by
Germans who left him on the field"
Among others on the Baltic were Mr.
and Mrs. S. r. Taber, Miss Alice Ward
man, Harry S. Black, Andrew Carnegie
I'd, E. G. Doubleday, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward d. Faulkner, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Scott Gerrish, f. X. Howard, Colone!
and Mrs william Jay, Mr.. and Mrs
Robert l.. Livingston, Pierre Lorillard
and IL. c. Raymond.
The North German Lloyd Line de-
nied Yesterday that It's steamship Bar
barossa, now anchored off Stapleton
staten Island, was preparing 10 run
the blockade Of this port. II was eN-
plained that the vessel was moved from
her pier in Hoboken to an anchorage
merely to make room for the Holland
America steamship Andijk. When
opportunity offered the company said
she would return to her pier. The YES
sell. which is heavily laden, can make
only fourteen knots at best speed and
would be no match for the British
cruisers lying outside Sandy Hook.
Announcement was made yesterday
by the yCunard Line that the steamship
Lusitania would sail on Wednesday az
l a. m. for Liverpool with passengers
and mail and denied the reports that
size had been ordered to Halifax for
trnnnE.