New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-16
BRITISH TAKE
GERMAN Ships
Steamer Arriving at Hull
Reports Many Captures
in the North Sea. ,
TURKEY RENAMES
GOEBEN AND BRESLAU
Rear Admiral Limpus, of British
Navy, Will Command
for Sultan.

London, Aug. i5.- The captain Of tbs
British Steamship Buffalo on his ar
rival at Hull to-day reported that his
vessel had been continually stopped
by gunboats. On the voyage up the
North Sea the captain saw a number
Of German vessels taken as prizes By
British warships.
Reuter- dispatch from 81. Peters
burg says that two German cruisers on
Thursday fred score OF shells az the
lighthouse on Cape Dsgerort, the west
ern extremity Of Dago Island, between
the Gulf Of Finland and the Baltic Sea.
The lighthouse was not damaged.
A Reuter- dispatch from Malta says
that the German cruisers Goeben and
Breslau we're pursued by British war
ships until they actually entered ths
Dardanelles.
"The Daily Mail" states that the
cruisers Goeben and Breslau, purchased
from Germany by Turkey, have re-
ceived Turkish names and will be
placed under the command Of Rear Ad-
miral Arthur H. Limpus, Of the Brit
ish navy, who was lent to the TURKISH
government. After remarking thzc
Turkey does not intend TO employ the
warships against Russia, THE Daily
Mail" adds:
"There appears 70 be no doubt that
their purchase is direct contraven-
ton of international law, but the
opinion is gaining ground in diplomatic
circles that Turkey is the victim OF =.
German trap to embroil her with the
Triple Entente"
A Reuter- telegram from Mitylens
SAYS that the German cruisers Goebcn
and Breslau, after escaping the Brit
jsh feet, entered the Dardanelles on
Monday night. German officers from
the cruisers boarded several ships the
next morning and gave peremptory or
ders that they should not move. The
Germans smashed part of the wireless
installation on the French liner Sag
halien, which had aboard 600 reserv-
lists.
Turkish officers visited the cruisers.
They could be seen through glasses
fraternizing with the Germans.
Tuesday. She was seen in the Sea OF
Marmora on Thursday flying the Ger
man flag. The Breslau, also flying the
German flag, was still in the Dards-
nelles on Thursday.
According TO reliable information.
the Porte apologized to the powers for
the arbitrary proceedings, but no state
ment was forthcoming TO explain why
the cruisers we're flying the German
flag.
Rear Admiral Limpus has been naval
adviser 70 the Turkish government
since 1912.
viii Change Crews.
The official press bureau of the
British Admiralty and War Department
this evening issued the following:
There is no reason TO doubt that
the Turkish government is about 10
replace the German officers and crews
of the Goeben and Breslau by Turk
sh officers and crews.
A Rome dispatch says that the Aus
trian feet is still in the protected wa
tiers of the Austrian naval port OF Pola.
The entire coast from PoE 20 Antivsri,
it is added, is heavily mined.
The big new Austrian Lloyd liner
Marienbad was captured to-day by a
British warship in the Levant, while
on the voyage from Bombay TO Triest.
She was taken into port at Alexandra.
Capture German Boat.
The new German steamer W. W.
/ Schneefels, which runs from Calcutta
to Boston and New York, has been
taken to Gibraltar as war prize.
/ The French liner Lorraine, il APP
pears, had narrow escape from capt
ure by German cruisers on her voyage
J from New York TO Havre, according To
Rene Desevaux, one of her officers.