New Britain herald., 1914-08-04
|Kronprinzessin Cecilie Anchors In Bar Harbor
of North German Lloyd Liner With $lO,OO0,OO0 In Gold Aboard Has Been Mystery Since Tuesday.

Captain Awaits Advices. Captain Polack said he Was await ing advices from his line offices in New York. "I can see no possibility of taking this ship to New York from here with safety" he said. ITO avoid foreign vessels we should have to keep within the three mile limit, and to accomplish this, the ship would have to be built like canoe. We have reached an American port in safety and that was more than l had dared to hope. We have been in al- most constant danger of capture, and we can consider ourselves extremely lucky to have come out so well. II know I have been criticised for making too great speed under bad weather conditions but I have not wilfully endangered the lives of the passengers. I would rather have lost the whole ship and cargo than have assumed any such risk. Of course, aside from this consideration, my one aim has been to save my ship and my cargo from capture.
 "I have not been acting on my own initiative but under orders from the North German Lloyd in Bremen, and although I am an officer in the German navy, my duty has been to the steamship line"
 Oral Duels Aboard.
 Col. G. F. B. Cobbett, .an English military officer, was one of the few Englishmen on board, and his chagrin at not being able to join the army was apparent. There were a num- Der of German officers Oral duels and miniature international warfare in the smoking room helped to divert the minds of the passengers who were inclined to give way to misgivings.
 To some sleep was impossible. The dark, foggy nights were long vigils until this mornings sun burned it's way through the mist that has hung over the north Atlantic. To those who promenaded the shut-in decks on the long watches the ship was like a ghost ship with only the animat- ing throb of it's engines to make it different from a derelict.
 The only gleam of light that re- lieved the dead blackness was where the ships friction stirred the sea into phosphorescence.
 Betting on American Port.
 The pool governing the time of ar rival in Plymouth was changed to betting on the American port into which the ship would go. Last night the betting was even on landing on the New England coast.
 Governor Miller of Delaware an- nounced that Newport would be the landing place; then New York be- gan to be a favorite. Boston, Port land and ports as far south as Hamp- ton Roads also figured. Meanwhile the captain shrugged his shoulders and was non-committal.
 Wild Scenes Enacted.
 It took several of the ships of fcers to restrain passengers from crowding into the small launches that came to the ships side this morning. A man who managed to get news paper from one of the launches was all but mobbed
 The little village of Bar Harbor with its summer colony was all astir and on the streets long before its usual hour, to witness the unpre- cedented spectacle of a big ocean liner anchored just off shore. The smoke stacks, painted by the crew this morning after the Cecilie turned on her course, led the inha bitants of | the village to think that by some l strange chance the Olympic had wan dered into port; then word went l around that it was the missing Ce- ellie with the famous cargo of gold l and curiosity became feverish.
 Enterprising persons began run- ming launches to the ship, but none ! was allowed to board her. They | stopped long enough however, to  to those on board.
 Finest Ship of Fleet.
 New York, Aug. 4.-The Kronprinz- zessin Cecilie is the finest ship of the ! North German Lloyd fleet News of l her safe arrival at Bar Harbor was l received at the line offices here in a | telegram from Capt. Polack. Until | his message was received the line was l apparently in the dark as to the ves- sells movements since she steamed 1 out of New York harbor.
 The gold aboard the vessel-more l than ten million dollars-was con- signed by New York bankers to Lon don and Paris. Officers of oneof the great international banks concerned said today that the metal would now probably be landed at Bar Harbor and returned to New York by express.
 Orders From Bremen.
 Onclals of the line said that the Cec1lle had not been ordered back to port from this side of the Atian- tic and that if any instructions had been received by Captain Polack they must have come from Bremen. al- though it was admitted that Captain Polack might have acted entirely on his own initiative. The ofticars here insisted that they had not been in communication with the shin af+er she left here.
 Presumably the vessel is now ,4