The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-06
U. s. Ship Is Ordered To Guard Passage
 Of Treasure Ship

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 no vessels were available on the great lakes.
 The captain of the Cunard liner l Pannonia, which arrived in port during l the night, said today that his vessel had passed through a zone patroIied l by two German warships. Radio grams in code passing between them were intercepted.
 | The Pannonia left Gibraltar, July 25, and, until she approached this coase. 1 the officers had no knowledge of the | situation in Europe.
 Several hundred miles out she re- ceived a message from a British cruis- I CT warning her to beware of capture. 1 All lights except the ones necessary 1 to the navigation of the ship were immediately extinguished. Early yes4 terday the Pannonia4 passed the Lusi- I tania- The ship was dark except for her running lights and. was being driv- en along at high rate of speed. Soon after the Pannonia was in the zone of a British warship, which in- formed her that she might go ahead 1 without fear as there were several I British ships within wireless call. Later. the Pannonia,s wireless operator heard German cruisers in communica- ton with each other The Pannonia brought 6e4 passengers in the first and second cabins.
 The Hamburg American line ern- phaticalIy denied today reports that the steamer vaterIand was being fitted otJ here as a cruiser or that she would sail on any mission whatever. 1 Guards about the pier were stfI1 maintained today and presumably as a precaution against approach by small boats with hostile intent a huge net was stretched across the stern of the vessel
 Captain Hessig, Of the Uranian line steamer Uranium, announced at the British consulate today that he had 1 intercepted yesterday wireless mes sages from the steamer Lllsitania. i saving that two German cruisers which had been pursuing the Llusita- mia had been chased and sunk by two British warshfps.
 The Uranium reached nort yester- l day.
 Further word of the big English I liner, the Lusital1ia, now dodging Ger
 man cruisers in a race for England was brought to New r ork today by the oil tank steamer Tonawanda from London and Antwerp. Captain Hari
 said that yesterday he heard the Ll1si- I tanias in wireless communication with 1 the British cruiser Essex, say that a I foreign cruiser was following her and l asking the Essex to stand by. Later I the Essex went in search of the l foreigner.
 I During three days past, said Cap I tain Hart the wireless brought news 1 of the presence of British, French I German cruisers. None was sighted I however. The French liner La I.or- l raine,s bearing nearly a thousand re servists bound for France. was seen 7C l miles west of Fire Island. ts
 The British ship Kansas City
 which sailed yesterday for Bristol I turned about today and made fol I Perth A1nboy, N. J.
 1 Fourteen steamers belonging to the
 International Mercantile Marine Com. I pany. it is said in shipping circles, vii be placed under the American flag I when Congress has passed the amend.
 meIt to the Panama Canal act repeal. l ing the six months noticesof change l and the five years age limit of steam,
 ships
 The transfer of these ships will add I a tonnage of more than 150,O0o t, j thea American Merchant marine witt
 Passenger carrying capacity rough
 ly estimated at 17.0O0.
 The White Star liner Cedric, bount
 hither from Queenstown and Liver j pool, has put into Halifax. presumabl.
 fearing capture.
 The brief announcement that. tn,
 vessel had stopped at Halifax was re
 ceiyed by the White Star line here
 Halffax, Aug 6-The Cunard line
 Mauretania arrived here at noon to oaiy, having been conveyed to tn,
 mouth of the harbor by the BritisI
 cruiser Essex. which picked her ul
 south of Sable Island.
 The Mauretania carried 1,4O0 pas
 sengers all of whom will probably b,
 landed here.
 Key West, Fla. Aug. 6-The Stand Fl ard Oil steamer Sioux. flying the Ger
 man flag, which left Tampico July 80 l with a cargo of oil for European ports
 arrived here today. Her captain sais Il he had made a forced run of severa hours to escape a British warship pa | trolling the Gulf of Mexico