New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-08
BRITONS RESPOND
TO CALL TO COLORS
Hundreds of English War
riors to Sail To-day on
Minnehaha and Olympic.

IOi > W oait " bo VII
Minnehaha and Olympic.
The first British subjects to sail for
service in the war will leave at 10:30
o'clock this morning, five hundred
strong, on the Atlantic Transport liner
Minnehaha for Liverpool. Half an hour
later the Olympic is scheduled to sail
with as many more. Reservations for
the men were made at the Seamen's
Church Institute, at 20 South ST.,
which was thronged all day.
The chief activity around at the
British Consulate, in State ST., was
listening to the tales of woe from sea
faring men thrown out of employment
by the contraction of shipping activity.
Acting Consul General Nosworthy
was the only consular official in town
who was too busy TO see newspaper
men, the whole force being so overbur-
dened with work that telegram was
sent recalling a fourteen-year-old once
boy from his vacation.
Although Mr. Nosworthy had moth
I ing to say, il was learned that he had
a conference in his Office with a per-
sonal representative of DR.. Constantin
/ Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian Ambas-
sador. A request was presented by the
Austro- Hungarians for list of their
countrymen serving in British ships,
probably for the purpose OF drafting
them for the war whenever they
touched at q neutral port. A repre-
/ sentative of the British Embassy was
also present. II was said the request
; Of the Austro-Hungarian agent was
refused.
Reservists have been reporting at
| the Swiss Consulate by thousands
Many are farmers and some come from
as far West as Iowa and Missouri. A
few brought their families with them;
others left those not fit for war duty
at home to gather the crops. Those
who had intended to go back were
thunderstruck to learn that the price
Of food staples in Switzerland had
tripled since the war began. Several
hundred Swiss reservists intend to san
to-day on the SAINT Anna, of the Fabre
Line. which will carry 1000 French
warriors.
Belgian reservists are also reporting
swiftly, and the better part of regl-
ment hope to get off by the Vaderland,
, of the Red Star Line, sailing to-day.
Others will go by the KrOonland. Pierre
Mali, the Belgian Consul General. said
that the fact that the Naderiand would
put in at Liverpool would make no dill
| ference. After the reception of the
news of the burning of Liege, he said,
! il would be impossible to hold back the
reservists when they saw a chance TO
return to Belgium.
"If the Germans burned Liege," as
serted the Belgian Consul, sit was as
an object lesson to other Belgian cities
who made resistance. The lesson
taught, however, will not be the one
expected by the Germans. Such an act
/ as the burning of Liege, with its sacred
and historical buildings, will result in
| bitterness which a century OF peace
could not wipe out. For 100 years, you
may say, there will be no trade be-
tween Belgium and Germany, if Liege
has been burned.
ut is foolish to say that buildings
were destroyed or ignited during the
bombardment of the forts. Liege is an
open city, like New York. II is forti-
| fed, yes-as New York would be forti-
/ fed were there forts on Long Island,
and again at Yonkers. But what eX-
cuse would an enemy Smelling those
forts have for demolishing the Grand
| Central Station"
! At the Servian Consulate il was said
/ that virtually all of the reserYists who
/ had come to New York from other
cities had returned to their homes.
| The experience of the Balkan war
/ times had taught the officials not to
| encourage men to stay in this city UNI
til transportation had been provided
| for them.
81 can safely say" said Secretary
I Pavlowitch yesterday, that not one
| Serb reservist will be a charge on the
/ city of New York as the result of the
war"
! Louis Kresse, a waiter, who testified
! in the Becker case, registered at the
| Austro- Hungarian consulate, saying that
although he was deserter he wanted
/ to go back and fight. He asked if am
nesty would be granted him if he did
| so, and he was told that it would.
An anti-war demonstration will he
/ held this afternoon at o'clock in
/ Union Square by the Socialist party.
| Trades unions and divisions composed
/ of representatives of the warning ma
/ tions are expected to appear in a pa
rade preceding the oratory.
/ Dudley Field Malone, Collector Of the
/ Port, was advised yesterday by +. +.
/ Sweet, Assistant Secretary of Com
meree, that reservists of the warning
nations should be allowed to return 10
their own countries providing they
sailed as individuals, but that no body
organized as a military force should be
allowed TO leave. Collector Malone had
asked whether the sailing of reserves
| NO.. d ..inlntinn Of nautralitu