The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-08
|ADRIATIC IN, LONG
HELD BY STRIKE
Liner Brings 497 Cabin Pas
sengers and a Heavy Con-
signment of Mail.
TROOPS LEFT IN HALIFAX
Col. A. w. Swain, U. s. Con
sui in Southampton, Sees
Peace Near in Ireland.

feet Of ocean liners to sail from the
Mersey since the strike OF dock workers
IN Liverpool, arrived yesterday with ts7
cabin passengers The strikers excepted
the liner and three other steamships
from the ban OF union labor because
thcy carried Canadian troops and their
families. Eighteen other steamships
were still held in the Mersey when the
Adriatic got away. She put on at Hall
fax 1884 Canadian troops and near
relatives, 3se civilians and 3.o11 bags Of
first class and 1895 bags of parcel
post mail She landed at this port s.oss
bags Of FIRST class mail and .ssl bags Of
parcel post.
Col Albert w. Swain, American
Consul at Southampton. and Mrs. Swain.
having In charge Miss Hilda Buipitt.
daughter Of william Bulpitt. who kept
up the English-American Soldiers Club
in southampton during the war. were
passengers. Miss Bulpitt is to marry
Lieut. George Tavenner of Newark, N.
J., to whom she became engaged In
Southampton. Col Swain has not been
away from his post since 1911, and ex-
poets to stay here sixty days. More
than a million American soldiers passed
through Southampton while the war
was on and the consuls Office worked
night and day.
Sees Peace I'm Ireland.
Col. Swain said he believed the Eng
lish Government was on the way to a
solution of the Irish controversy. He
remarked that II the hard headed Pres
byterians and the Catholics OF similar
Na1
and go to praying as good churchmen
are supposed TO do the trouble in Ire
land might end sooner.
Other arrivals by the Adriatic were
the Rev. DR.. G.. Campbell Morgan, pas
tor OF the Westminster Congregational
Chapel. iii London, here to become
professor in a school of pedagogy; Sir
William Mackenzie. president of the
Canadian Northern Railway: Reginald
Wright Kaufman. novelist, who waited
twenty-three days for a vessel sailing
from Liverpool and who says folks am
bilious to get home are offering bonuses
for any sort OF accommodation on a
liner; Miss Stella II. de Aubrey, ac-
tress. with sixteen trunks packed with
'Chu Chin Chow" costumes, and Lieut.
II. c. Moyse of the Ritz-Carlton. who
has been on n business trip through Eu-
rope in the interest of a group of hotels
with which the Rltz-Carlton is con-
nected
To Ala Serbian Children.
Michael !. Pupin. professor of electro
mechanics In Columbia University re-
turned from a four months trip in the
Balkan States, said he would represent
here commission formed in Belgrade
under control of Americans, English and
SArhianS N ha ~
Serbia. War and sickness. particularly
tuberculosis had carried off Serbians
also Montenegrins. by the thousands
and many orphans were left that could
not be properly cared for by the Balkan
Governments. The plan of the commits
sion Is to have the children adopted by
persons who will contribute IS a month
each for the maintenance and educa-
ton of one child. The children will be
encouraged after they grow big enough
to read and write to correspond with
their foster parents.
Prof. Pupin confidently declared when
tho Americans were still battling to keep
the U-boats down or blow them up that
they eventually would be knocked out by
the genius of America and other allied
countries. He said yesterday that
American and other French inventions
perfected since the war had practically
hduo WdrIdT6 obsolete, and
that he believed that all fear of undersea
craft taking part in future warfare had
been eliminated.
Aircraft Not Destroyed.
Major W. M. Chadbourne. lawyer, of
l65 Broadway. also a passenger. said
that II was not true, as reported, that
millions of dollars worth OF American
airplanes and automobiles had been de-
stroyed wantonly in France. where he
has been serving on the liquidation board
making final disposition of American
supplies on the other side. He said that
nothing that was At for use o. salvage
had been destroyed.
Major Chadbourne also contradicted
stories OF the Ill treatment of German
prisoners. He said that as a matter of
policy, II for no other reasons. the Ger
mans were well fed and well taken care
of generally. After good meals they
received writing paper. and the letters
they sent home were the best propa =
ganda for America that could have been
devised. AS proof OF the good treat
ment OF the Germans Major Chadbourne
said he never heard of single prisoner