Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-06
Ships Remain in New York
Harbor or Creep In and Out
Carefully Hugging Coast to
Avoid Capture by Cruisers,
TRAFFIC BY WATER is
ALMOST ABANDONED
German Vessel, Which Put to
Sea With Cargo of Coal for
Unknown Destination, Has
Not Been Heard From,

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New York, Aug with British,
German and French war vessels
lurking along the trans Atlantic
lanes piled by steamships. conditions
off the American north Atlantic
coast have taken on some of the as
poets of blockade.
Foreign vessels which ventured to
leave this port today went forth I'M
der risk of capture. Others coming
in Travelled for the most part at full
speed ahead, regardless of danger in
darkness and fog. Their wireless
operators caught fragments of con-
versation between cruiser and cruiser,
or from cruiser to land. but were
unable to interpret the text Of what
they overheard, as the messages
were in code.
Few Ships Venture Ont.
Each day the number of ships
daring TO sail from New York has
been growing smaller. To-day only
ship La Lorraine, carrying 100
French reservsts and about 800
other passengers; the cunard liner
Lusitanla, with 2i5 passengers for
England, and the Greek liner Athi-
mai. with 500 Greek, 200 Italian and
a few Scrvian resefvists. for the Med
iterranean.
The Lusitania was in faint wire
less touch with the shore at o'clock
tonight. She was sending code mes
sages. presumably to British cruisers
which are expected to convoy her to
her destination.
Cancel Their Engagements.
70 the list of steamship lines
which have cancelled their sailings
from New York, four were added to-
day. They were the French line, with
the exception of La Lorraine the
Faber line, except the Santana,
which will sail from her Brooklyn
pier Saturday afternoon with French
reservists. in place of the Rocham-
beau the Uranium line, flying the
British flag, and controlled by the
Canadian Northern Railway com
pany. and the Lamport and Holt
line. operating to Brazil and Argen-
tine ports
Try TO Recall Ship.
One of the Uranium liners, the
Campanelo. which left here July 5u'
carries $500 bushels of wheat
consigned to Germany. Officials oil
the line, anxious to have her recalled.
have communicated with the Toronto
offices to learn if this can be accom-
plished. The PrinepelIo. which ar
rived Saturday and the Uranium to-
day, will remain here for the pres
ent. The Uranium sailed from Rot
ferdam, July 30, and brought l04
passengers.
Two Liners Reach Port.
The Lamport and Holt liners, inn
portant vessels to the coffee trade
will be tied up in the ports they are
in. The Highland Harris was to nave
sailed for New York today ana the
Tennyson Thursday. Other vessels OF
this line are en- route toward South
American ports. OF the steamships
arriving today, one was the missing
North German Lloyd liner Kaiser
Wilhelm II, from Bremen with zoo
cabin passengers, mails ana a val
liable cargo. She confirmed the be-
lief that she did not wireless, as
usual. to Cape Race, for fear OF de-
filming her position to hostile sh'ps.
The President Lincoln arrived from
Hamburg with s63 passengers ana
mails and has joined the idle fleet
in refuge here.
Two Vessels Slip In.
The White Star liner Olympic ana
the Hamb burg American vessel Prinz
Eitel Friedrich slipped quietly in
before dawn, shrouding all except
their running lights. The Friedrich
came from Colon and wherever pos
sible kept within the American-three-
mile neutrality territory to avoid pos
sibe seizure.
The Anaco, from Naples, with
about 400 passengers, likewise came
in under darkness; and the Venezia.
from Marseilles, got in later with
200 passengers. The Pannonia arriV-
ed tonight from Naples. The British
steamer Etanian. which had started
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been informed by wireless that war
existed between Great Britain anu
Germany The steamer kioto, arrV-
ing tonight from Oran. Algiers, was
one of those with news of wireless
exchange of warships. The operator
of the Caracas, which came in to-
night from South American ports,
a c.,obt c,,ob t,cccapoS
Nothing was known publically here
tonight of the whereabouts of the
North German Lloyd liner kron-
prinz Wilhelm, which left port sud
denly Monday night, heavily coaled
and without passengers. If her ag-
ents have had word from her they
nave not made ii known.
The cruiser Tennessee, which the
government will send to the relief OF
thousands of Americans abroad, left
the Brooklyn navy yard tonight and
dropped anchor in the harbor off
Tompkinsville There she will remain
until late tomorrow when she will
sail with s7,5O0.000 in gold, includ-
ing s2,5a0,000 from government
vaults