The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-23
THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES
ON WAY TO UNITED STATES
Steamers Of International Marine
Lines Crowded With Americans,
Homeward Bound
ARRIVE WITHIN FEW DAYS
Other Ships Sail, One Loaded With
loodstuffs, Probably Intended for
British Cruisers in North Atlantic.
Rcscrvists Sail for England.

NEW YORK, August ee-Elcven
thousand American refugees to-day
were homeward bound on steamers Of
the International Mercantile Marine
Lines.
The White Star liner Baltic. arriv-
ing to-day. brings 2,l3o. and the Amert-
can Line steamship 81. Louis has l.135
passengers The American Line steam
er Dominion. due at Philadelphia to-
morrow or Monday, has Gao. and the
McEantic, of the White Star Dominion
Service, Will land 500 at Montreal to-
morrow
At New York early on Monday morn
Ing the Atlantic transport ship Mime
waska viii dock with n capacity list
of :54 passengers. On the White Star
town on August 81. are 1850 pas
scngcrs: on the American liner Merion
from the same port on Thursday last,
430 passengers sailed.
On the Olympic, of the White Star
Line. leaving Liverpool to-day. are
5000 passengers. and on the Mime
tonka, also leaving there to-day, coo.
all the vessel can carry The White
Star-Dominion Line vessel Canada
Will bring 700 from Liverpool also
starting to-day.
With every stateroom crowded by
Homecoming Americans. the Campania,
of the Cunard Line, is duo here to-
morrow. Many OF her passengers were
transferred from the Aquitania. when
the latter was pressed into service by
the British admiralty.
AMERICAN REFUGEES
SUFFER- HARDSHIPS
On the Baltic, which arrived to-day
from Liverpool and Queenstown, were
@.l2O passengers and nearly 5000 sacks
OF mail. The passengers included more
than loo American refugees, who
reached either Queenstown or Liverpool
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many hardships
Seven hundred of the LOO steeraue
passengers We're Americans unable to
get accommodation in the first and
second cabins. One Of the passengers
was Miss Florence Ralph, of Buffalo.
studying music in Berlin She heard
the Emperor deliver tho speech In
winch he said his sword had been
forced into his hands by his enemies.
AS he said it, Miss Ralph declared. he
Datted the hilt of a heavy sabre hang
Ing at his side and tears came into his
eyes. Tho Germans cheered the EN-
perors speech when he told them to go
to the churches and pray
The day before left Berlin the au-
thorities issued ORDERS" said Miss
Ralph, that no parades should be al
lowed. ana that any persons found
singing patriotic songs would be ar
rested. The idea. I understood, was
that the government wanted to IMPRESS
upon the people that II was n time to
be solemn. and not to be overcontident. -
WOMEN FORCED 70 TAKE
PASSAGE IN STE;E.RAGTJ
samuel Cntcrmyer. the lawyer said
that American women who were forced
to take passage In the stecragc sat at
tables sandwiched among foreigners OF
the kind usually found in steamship
stccrage. In the steeraSe were fifteen
Americans who had been arrested in
Germany and Russia as spies
DIR. f. Pollock, of San Antonio, Texas.
WAS a stceraGe passenger Ee was i'm
LieSc August | and .. and said the
streets were allied with wounded men.
Many were sitting with their backs
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