The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-08
BLOCKADE OF PORT BY
BRITISH PROTESTED
Shippers Say Cruisers Are III
clined to Edge Over Three
Mile Limit.
HOLDUPS OCCUR DAILY

The blockade OF the port Of New York
by a squadron of British war craft and
the Cunarder Caronia. equipped as an
auxiliary cruiser, while not seriously in
terferIng with the commerce OF tho port
by way OF Sandy Hook. has inspired a
few ultra-American shipping folk 20 make
a mild protest OF purely personal nature
What little there Is OF American ship
ping going across seas and to the West
Indies and South America has not been
moles,ed except when suspected OF having
coal for German cruisers The chief re-
suit OF the cruiser squadron's activity Is
to inspire steamships under neutral colors
to sneak into the Hook by hugglng the
coast within the three mile limit.
Capt. Anderson OF the Norwegian banana
carrier Katie, who declined to stop at the
gun fire command of the Caronia on the
Jersey shore on Tuesday. treated the at
tempt to hold him up in humorous vein.
That Is not the way with all the shippers.
Sometimes even the British captains
growl about the search. This was espe-
cially true OF Capt. Jones of the steam
ship Consols. in yesterday afternoon from
Buenos Ayres, by way OF Trinidad. Just
after he left Trinidad British cruiser
stopped him and took on his cook. O Ger
man. and three other German members
OF the crew. The skipper and his pas
sengers and crew said the cook was a
mighty good one and also that he was
not interested in the war, but just cook
ing Capt Jones had to do his own
cooking and he said war was indeed even
more than Gen. sherman said about II.
None OF the shipping men dispute the
| right of the British cruisers to hold up
any ship they please outside Of the three
| mile limit, but they think that they are
/ liza. tha 20 10
| come within the limit to take peep at
suspect steering for safety along the
/ shore.
German cruisers. wherever they may
! be. are probably sadly In need of coal and
, provisions. and much has been offered
| to any shipper venturesome enough to
| run the risk Of finding and supplying
| them
There " an average Of almost a holdup
a day off the Hook-far enough OF to be
outside the three mile limit. but not Tar
enough to prevent the Sandy Hook and
! the Highlands marine observers from see
/ ing the performance. The CarOnia shows
| herself TO the observers and the pilot boat
/ ON station near the Ambrose Channel
/ lightship several times week, The
/ cruiser Lancaster IL the most frequent
| visitor 10 get within the range Of the
observers field glasses.
Recently a new war vessel put in her
appearance which some of the newspaper
I war experts viewing the ocean from the
Battery wall have declared to be the bat
tleship Britannia. The Hook and High
lands observers are inclined to think that
/ the war correspondents at the Battery
| who use the naked eye alone and seldom
supplement II with the naked truth, have
made mistake about the Britannia. She
is considerable of wnrship, having -four
~ inch guns in pairs In turrets, four %
inch guns singly in turrets. ten inch
guns in battery. fourteen 3 inch twelve
pounders). fourteen three Founders and
two machine guns. Her description as
given by the marine observers does not
At that OF the britannia. II is likely that
she Is one OF the cruisers of the Lancaster
type whose heaviest armament consists OF
fourteen 6 inch guns