The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-06
ASPECTS OF BLOCKADE
ALONG ATLANTIC COAST
Many Vessels Take Refuge In
Already COngested Port Of
New York.
OTHERS ARE HUGGING COAST
Incoming Ships Travel Under Cover
of Fog and Darkness at Full Speed,
Regardless OF Danger-Few Now
Dare TO Sail.

NEW YORK, August with Brit
ish. German and French war vessels
lurking along tho transatlantic lanes
piled by steamships conditions off the
North American Atlantic coast have
taken on some Of the aspects OF a
blockade.
Foreign vessels which venturcd to
leave this port to-day went forth un-
der risk OF capture. Others incoming
travelled for the most part at full
speed ahead. regardless of danger in
darkness and fog. Their wireless oper-
ators caught fragments of converge
I tons between cruiser and cruiser. or
( from cruiser to land, but Wcrc unable
To interpret the text of what they
overheard. AZ the messages were in
! code
Each day the number Of ships dar-
ing to sail from New York for Euro
pcan shores has been growing smaller
To-day only three went out--the
| French steamship La Lorraine, carry
ing 700 French rcservlsts and about
300 other passengers; tho Cunard liner
Lustania, with 2i5 passengers for
England. and the Greek liner Athinai
with 500 Greek. zoo Italian and few
Servian reservists. for tho Mediter-
ranean.
LUsITANIA IN FAINT
TOUCH BY WIRELESS
The Lusitania was in faint wireless
touch with the shore at o'clock to-
night She was sending code messages
presumably to British cruisers. which
are expected to convoy her.
To the list OF steamship lines which
had Cancelled their sailing from New
| York, four we're added to-day. They
were the French Line, with the ex-
ception OF La Lorraine: the Fabre Line
except the SAINTS Anna. which will sail
+ from her Brooklyn pier on Saturday
afternoon with French rescrvists. In
place OF the Rochambeau; the Tran
ium Line. flying the British nag. and
controlled by the Canadian Northern
Railway Company, and the Lamport
and Holt Line. operating to Brazil and
! Argentine ports
| One Uranium liner. the Campanello.
which left here July 90. carries 100000
| bushels OF wheat, consigned to Ger
many. Officials OF the line. anxious to
| have her recalled. have communicat ed
with the Toronto Offices to learn II this
can be accomplished. The PrincipeIlo.
| Uranium to-day, will remain here for
| the present.
I The Lamport and Holt liners, inn
! portant vessels 10 the coffee trade. will
be tied UP in the ports they are in.
The Highland Harris was to have
Tennlson last Saturday. The Van
/ Dyck is in New York also. Other YES
sells OF this line are en- route toward
/ South American ports.
OF the steamships arriving to-day,
/ one was the missing North German
Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm H., from
Russia, with $50 cabin passengers.
mail and valuable cargo. The Lin
coin arrived from Hamburg with $50
passengers and mails. and joined the
[ idle fleet here.
/ The White Star liner Olympic and
/ the Hamburg American vessels Prinz
Eitei Friedrich slipped in before dawn.
/ The Friedrich came from Colon, and
whenever possible kept within the
American three-mile neutrality limit.
ANCONA, FROM NAPLES,
CG%ES UNDER DARKNESS
The Ancona. from Naples. with about
/ 800 passengers, likewise came in un-
/ der darkness. and the Nenezia. from
Marseilles. got In later with 200 pas
seDgers. The Pannonia arrived to-
night from Naples. Tho British steam
! er Etonian which had started for Ant
/ werp, returned to-day, having been In =
! formed by wireless that war existed
between Great Britain and Germany.
Tho steamer kioto, arriving tonight
/ from Oran, Algiers. was one OF those
with news of the wireless exchange OF
/ warships' messages The operator of
/ the Caracas. which came in tonight
( from South American ports, also caught
( such messages
/ Nothing was known publicly here
tonight of the whereabouts of the
| North German Lloyd liner Kronprinz
Wiihelm. which left port suddenly on
! Monday night heavily coaled and with
! out passengers.
! The cruiser Tennessee, which the
! government will send TO the relief OF
Americans abroad. tonight dropped
anchor in the harbor There she will
remain until tomorrow, when she
/ ing se,5oo.o0O from government
/ vaults.