Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-04
OLDTIME SEAPORT IS
NOW IMPORTANT PLACE
Harbor Of Falmouth Has Trou-
BILE Taking Care of Shipping
Rush Due to German Zone.

Correspondence Of The Associated Press)
FALMOUTH, England, March g.
These are stirring days in this remote
chipping outpost The harbor is
crowded with American. Dutch and
scandinavian craft OF all kinds. great
liners of some of the trans Atlantic
companies, freghters. tankers and
tramps in all rigs and flags. II Is the
busiest shipping time Falmouth has
seen since the old packet days, al
Mpst hundred years ago, when
vdngs flourished and then died down
until the port was considered pretty
dead from shipping standpoint. Just
now the declaration Of the German
war zones has sent more ships sour
rying into the harbor. for the memo
randum to the German note even
specified Falmouth by name as offer
ing some possible exemption from the
scourges
Falmouth more than any other
port is witnessing how the war is
Changing trade routes and trade ports,
Particularly along the channel where
the submarine menace has practically
closed the old ports for trans Atlantic
travel, notably at Cherbourg, HaVre
and Boulogne on the French side ana
Southampton ana Dover on the Eng
lish. And even Bordeaux has fallen III
the danger zone under the new men
ace. So that Falmouth, while having
no actual exemption has none the
less reapcd the advantage of its geo
graphical position in absorbGg the
shipping closed out from mary other
ports.
IN An Outpost of Europe.
The port is at the very tip Of south
west England. Just abreast of the
rocky hcadland of Landsend and about
~, first land sighted in coming across
M Atlantic It is Just east of the
lizard, from which point the arrival
too to the Poldau wireless station,
of liners is first reported. the same aS
from Sandy Hook. IL is adjacent
wireless across the Atlantic and to
ships at sea. Nearby is Penzance,
where the pirates lived. and further
on is the house Of Drokc.
Thus located at the very jumping
off point Of England and the western
most harbor Of the channel, Fal-
mouth has a minimum of submarine
danger and at the same time is some
thing like Montauk Point, Long Is
thus permitting quick emergency rail
connections with the metropolis lying
further inland These various adVan-
tages have combined to bring back
Falmouth to its old-time shipping
glory and to crowd the harbor with
the ships of all nations save those OF
the enemy.
one of these newcomers. an Ameri-
con tanker, has Just gone ashore In
10 hqrbpr a nd Is SLOWLY GOING
to pieces before the heavy SURF. Ihere
has been no loss of life, but Falmouth
is deeply aroused. for sum OF AmeTs-
car oil has spread over the surface
of the water.
IT'S one of the worst things ever
happened to us" said an old authority
of the port The oil has got into
our oyster beds. among the best in
England and probably killed them
for good 1t has also killed off all
the fish. and even the fish that are
living can't be eaten they taste so or
oil. We've had big boom from the
war. but this oil on the water set IL
all back It's a serious danger, TOO,
for at some points 1t has caught on
fire and spread sheet Of flame far
over the water"
The Rush of shipping.
This, however, is only one of the
passing incidents of the strenuous sea
life i'm times of war. But the lasting
thing for Falmouth is the great inn
potus To shipping and the crowd OF
sbips from all over the world now
heading it i'm and out of the port. The
rush has been so great that the port
authorities have put on very rigid
rules against crowds of strangers in
yading the town at night. only the
master of the merchant craft come
ashore at anv time; all the crews are
marooned aboard. day and night. No
small boat from the visiting ships can
he ofIoat after o'clock in the after
noon ANY master or other person
from the ships in town after that is
subiect TO arrest.
About the strangest ships in this
crowded harbor are two which loom
nm biph on either side Of a liner as it
comes in from the trip over the At
Iantic These two enormous hulks
look like water fortresses, with double
and triple fighting decks sand triple
lines of portholes for heavy guns. The
British ensign is swapping from the
peal, OF both these craft. and yet,
sri they cannot possibly be war
craft or the present generation, as in
mnrv proves for they are two of the
mosi historic ships of Nelson's day,
one his favorite flagship, the Foud-