New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-01
BATTLEFIELD MOVE
WAITS ships HERE
Hold-Up of German Liners
Delays Plan to Send
Austrian Recruits.
MEN CLAMOR
AT CONSULATE
May Attempt TO Get Passage in
the Steerage of Neutral a
Vessels.

With thousands of Austro-HuDga-
rian subjects offering their services by
mail, telegraph and in person, and
hundreds Of them clamoring about the
doors of the consulate at "a State ST.,
the officials there were busy yesterday
considering plans for getting the re-
servists to the seat of war when their
government should call for them.
ave don't know how it can be man
aged" said DR.. Friedrich Fischerauer,
the Austrian vce-consul. mo ships
are sailing and we will have to take
steps to care for the reservists here
until they can be sent across"
From another source il was learned
that the movement Of the Austro-Hun-
garian subjects from this country to
the war is a military and naval prob
lem that is occupying the minds CT
the strategists, both of the Dual Mon
archy and its ally, Germany.
In the suspension of the regular
transatlantic steamship service, the
plan under consideration was either to
send transports over for the reservists
or TO charter vessels here.
The next step would be to provide a
convoy, and this would call for CO.
operation from Germany.
There arc eight German warships in
the West Indies, and using them as a
convoy is under consideration. In fact,
it was rumored yesterday that the
Dresden. one of the feet, was hover
ing outside the three-mile limit off
Sandy Hook. A more bellicosc rumor
had it that the Dresden had fired on
the Lusitania as she put in toward this
harbor yesterday, but Captain Dow, of
the Cunarder, denied it, saying that
he had not even sighted the man-of
war.
The plan Of conveying a transport
of reservists from this country by
means of the German ships involves
the possibility of a naval engagement
eff Sandy Hook between the German
escort and British ships from Halifax.
1t is thought inevitable that should
hostilties advance to the stage OF
making it necessary to call men home
from this country, England would have
been drawn into the war, and that the
ships in Canadian waters would nat
urally be given the task of preventing
reinforcements from sailing from this
country.
The officials at tie Austro-Hungaris
consulate WOulQ HOL uiSCuSS pldIlS lOI
getting their people home further than
to say that the first effort would be TO
send them in the steerage of neutral
ships. DR.. Fiseherauer said that con-
centration camp for the reservists who
mobilize here would probably be es-
tablshed somewhere on Long Island.
In case it was not found necessary to
send them to war, he said, their eX-
penses back to their homes in this
country would be paid.
ave have Just received word from
Count Laudon," he said. "who lives at
the Plaza, that he will raise, fit out
and send to the war at his own expense
a regiment of thousand men who have
had training in the army and militia OF
the United States. The count, al
though he is an American citizen now,
comes of one of the oldest families Of
the Austrian nobility, and is very pat
riotc.
I'VE haze also had request from
four United States Army aviators for
commissions. They said they would
furnish their own machines. We have
referred their applications to the home
government. A great number of Poles
here. especially Russian Poles, have
asked 10 be enlisted. Fully per cent
of the total number offering their SER
vices here are Jews.
az don't believe my country is getting