Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-05
KEEN INTEREST IN MOVEMENTS
 OF ATLANTIC OCEAN LINERS
Particularly German Liners, Which Are Scurryins to Port-kronprinzes
 sin Cecilie Safe at Bar Aarbor- Olympic Warned by British Cruiser.

New York, Aug. 5.-With war for
 mally declared between England and Germany, there was keen interest in
 marine circles tonight regarding the movement of the transatlantic steam ships, particularly the German liners, which are scurrying to port to avoid
 possible capture by armed vessels of hostile European nations.
 kronprinzessin CeeiIie at Bar Harbor. The arrival of treasure carrying Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar Harbor, Maine, today. led to the opinion being | expressed here tonight that another Norh German Lloyd liner which has been missing, he Kaiser Wilhelm II, hours overdue in New York, may turn up unexpectedly in some other Amer ican port. This vessel, which ought to have arrived here this morning. had reported her position two days ago to the wireless station at Cape Race and she has not been heard from since touching at Cherbourg on July 29th | If she has not been captured, her agents l suggested she may not have defined her position by wireless for fear that | she would be taken as the Kronprin- l zessin Cecilie's captain reported the proximity of French war vessels Agents Taking Every Preeaution. The German steamship agents here
 are taking every precaution, 1t was learned tonight, to prevent any hostile movement being carried out against
 their vessel in this port. The Vater- land of the Hamburg American line is closely guarded by city police and pri- | vate detectives at her Hoboken pier. It was admitted that the company's S officials are adopting measures to frus- trate any attempt to blow up the ves- sel. The German consul In New York today directed that all the French l walters on the Vaterland be discharged
 and 1t is said that order will be ex tended to other German ships in port. s Powerful searchIishts Used Al the Vaterlands s pier tonight, a powerful searchlight streamed upon every passing vessel in the Hudson, following it until it passed out of the Vaterland was being loaded with coal | all day but 1t was stated by the com l pany that no move would be made to send the vessel to Germany, nor would ] the Imperator, now in Hamburg leave 1 that port.
 Anxiety for German Vessels. Of other German vessels for which
 the company expressed anxiety tonight the Prinz Eitel Friederich of the Ham 1 burg American line was hugging the 1 New Jersey coast, trying to keep with
 in the American three mile neutrality zone on her voyage to New York from West India ports.
 | HC EICSlucHI IL1nCOt0 OI LIllS llI1c, from Hamburg, was speeding toward l Nantucket. hurrying to pass into neu- | tral waters. The Cincinnati of this line, from Hamburg, was reported to- night two days out from Boston. Hamburg American Liners Tied Up. Little hope was expressed by the Hamburg American line officials to- night that they would hear anything direct from two of their Passenger lin- CTS now in the English port of FaI- mouth. The kronprin2essin Geciiie and the Prinz Albert, the former from New York. and the latter from Phil adelphia put in at Falmouth today. It Is assumed here thai they did not know that Germany and England were on the eve Of WRf and that they
 sought safely from French M1rsh1ps.
 Cable adv1ces told of the Hamburg American liner Belgia, from Boston
 to Hamburg. off the English coast today and not apparently full capture
 The Russian steamship Kursk. New
 York to Libau. put in at Plymouth.
 England. today.
 German Cruiser of Atlantic Coast. With at east one German cruiser