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9 ~FLFENG FROM FRENCH ~ SAE AT BAR HARB ‘German Liner, Knowing That Cruisers Sought Her, Extinguishes Lights and Crashes at Full Speed | |» Through Fog Back to America. ; BAR HARBOR, Aug. 4.—The North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie, carrying $13,000,000 in gold and silver and whose whereabouts has been more or less of a mystery since she sailed | trom New York last Tuesday, arrived in the hiarbor here today. The Cecilie dropped anchor at 6 o'clock this morning after a forced tun of four days, her officers fearing capture. \ | No one was permitted aboard the Kronprinzessin to-day except news- | «paper men, All of the passengers were greatly excited over the thrilling | trip of the vessel. Sho was within 800 miles of England when, in respénse to wireless instructions, Capt, Polack put about and headed back at full | “epeed. Some of the passengers said an unidentified vi I, which they sup- | ypoeed was a British warsaip, chased the Kronprinsessin from Monday r) morning until the liner put in at Bar Harbor. With a cargo of $13,000,000 in gold and silver consigned to French and English bankers, with an estimated value of over five millions in herself, the Kronprinzessin Cecilie has constituted probably the finest sea prize ever epen to capture. As she*trept along the Maine coast and into the harbor under the @ever of night, each deck, at every porthole, was blanketted with canvas a @o that not a gleam of light betrayed her whereabouts. Her four stout @tacks had been tipped with paint so that she resembled the English Seashonie Olympic. Lookouts were doubled. | HEARD THAT FRENCH CRUISERS WERE SEEKING HER. At one time capture scemed imminent. Capt. Charles Polack reported that on Sunday he had intercepted a wirel: message from one French vessel to another, giying warning of the Cecilie's proximity, but under the protection of a providential fog the North German Lloyd liner escaped. The Kronprinzessin Cecilie left New York early last Tuesday morning | bound for Bremen, via Plymouth and Cherbourg, with 350 first class, 130 second class and 736 steerage passengers. About a third of the figst class | are Germans who sailed to anticipate the war crisis. Most of the rest are Americans. ns Friday night, whjle @ danse was in progress, one of the passengers “poticed’ that the position of the moon had unaccountably shifted to the port side of the ship. Before the significance of this was realized the cap- tain called the men into the smoking room. “Gentlemen,” he said, “war has been declared between England, France, @ermany and Austria; we are going back to America. We have enough eoal for our return home, and it is my earnest hope that we will not be fmtercepted by foreign war vessels.” There was nervous laughter, appl: » oaths, congratulations, pro- q tests, which gave way to a gra’ tate of apprehension as the seriousness of the situation became apparent. Electric lights were turned off and the @hip was covered from prow to stern in shrouds of canvas, This smothered whatever beams of light escaped through chinks in the stateroom win- dows. According to the ship's log, she was then 46.46 north latitud>, 30.21 ‘west longitude. In two days she would haye docked at Plymouth, , A group of financiers on board offered to buy the ship and sail her » wader American colors, so great was their excitement. But to all Proposals ‘the captain replied that his duty was spelled by his orders from Bremen, which instructed him to turn back and save his ship. There was a stam- * "pede for the wireless, but the captain announced that no messages would pe eent for fear of betraying the ship's location. SVERY LIGHT ON GREAT LINER WAS HIDDEN. The American port which the captain would try to make was a matter Bor countless speculation. It was not until the passengers awoke this “hhorning in sight of the green Maine hills that the liner’s destination be- | game certain. = \ + For ¢wo nights, with her head and side lights extinguished and every ether illumination blotted out with canvas, the Kronprinsessin Cecilie plunged through the fog with unreduced speed and without sounding tha feg horn. e Capt. Polack’s explanation to a delegation of passengers who protested egainst fast running under such conditions was that tt was his motive to Gave his ship from capture. He added that he did not consider the danger appreciable, as he was not on the usual path. ? For a time the protest against what the passengers looked upon ap a @isposition on the part of the captain to risk their lives threatened to take the form of a written demand that he reduce the speed of the ship. Capt. Polack sald he was awaiting advices from his line offices in New York. “I can see no possibility of taking this ship to New York from here with pafety,” he said. “To avoid foreign vessels we should have to keep i ‘within the three-mile limit, and to accomplish this the ship would have to De built like a canoe. We have reached an American port in safety, and that was more than I had dared to hope. We have been in almost constant } eo of capture, and we can consider ourselves extremely lucky to hai out so well, | CAPTAIN DECLARES SHIP WAS NOT IN DANGER “I know I have been criticised for making too great speed under bad | weather conditions, but | have not wilfully endangered the lives of the | Passengers. I would rather have lost the whole ship and cargo than have assumed any such risk. Of course, aside from this consideration, my one aim has been to save my ship and my cargo from capture. “I have not been acting on my own initiative, but under orders from ' the North German Lloyd ih Bremen, and although I am an officer in the | German navy, my duty has been to the steamship line.” j Col, G. F. B. Cobbett, an English military officer, whose chagrin at not : being able to join the army was apparent, was one of the few English on ‘ the ship. There were a number of German officers. Oral duels and + miimfature international warfare in the smoking room helped to divert the minds of the passengers, ’ ‘ To some sleep was impossible. To those who promenaded the shut in ' @ecks the ship was like « ghost ship, with only the animating throd of its } eagines to make it different from a derelict, The only gleam of light was |. where the ship's friction stirred the sea into phosphorescence. The pool governing the time of arrival in Plymouth was changed to ' on the American port into which the ship would go. Last night { betting was even on landing on the New England coast, j i i tas Gov. Miller of Delaware announced that Newport would be'the landing plece; then New York began to be a favorite, Boston, Portland and ports } ea ifar south as Hampton Roads also figured. Meanwhile the captain ; his shoulders and was noncommittal. ~ } <The ship remained at allowed to. depart, throughout the forencod, After the passengers tye ral had malted several anzious hours, grea)*bundion Af Agta TREASURE SHP CELE —= we ie ta daa - al ~~ x. ApuiRa: a = mG STACE Oe ote nee On LI BRT BATTLESHIP TONE Papers were brought out in small boats. By their flaring headlines the Passengers first learned the gravity of the situation. The calm of the first few hours was succeeded by wild excitement, but the captain remained firm in his refusal to permit the passengers to go ashore until this after- boon. CAPTAIN HAD TO DODGE PURSUING WARSHIPS. « Six doctors boarded the steamer and began an examination of the steerage passengers. Capt. Polack advised first class passengers that they would be provided. with special cars on trains to New York at 9 o'clock to-night and the steerage passengers will be sent to New York at 9 o'clock to-morrow night. On Sunday Capt’ Polack’s uneasiness became acute. Forty-eight French fishing schooners off the Island of Miquelon were sighted and the Kronprinzessin Cecilie changed its course to avoid them. Wireless opera- tors of the vessel caught a message exchanged by French vessels urging that a sharp lookout be Rept for the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Capt. Polack was unable to discover the exact location of the ships and their character, but as French warships usually afford the Miquelon fishermen protection he was very apprehensive and spoke frankly to delegatidns of passengers who visited him to protest against high speed in the fog which hung over the Grand Banks. Many wireless messages exchanged by British vessels were caught by the wireless operators of the steamer Monday afternoon and night, and Capt. Polack was in constant fear of interruption by the British warships from Halifax. The exact value of thé gold on the liner, with the firms shipping it, according to the liner’s manifest, is as follows: For Paris—Goldman, Sachs & Co,, $1,076,634.49; Heldelbach, Ickelheimer & Co,, $1,534,000; National City Bank, $2,104,254.34. For London—Guaranty Trust Company, $4,942.937.64; National City Bank, $1,061,718.89, Total, $10,769,545.36, In addition there was $2,400,000 in allver. Will Deliver $13,000,000 to N. Y. Sub-Treasury Max May, Vice-President of the|from this side of the Atlantic, but Guaranty Tras Company, the largest | {0m Bremen. Director Von Helmbolt Was greatly surprised when he hea shipper of the gold on the Ceclli®,| the voice of Capt. Polack on the tae Phone shortly before 9 o'cldck this morning. The captain sald he had arrived at Bar Harbor a few hours before. Captain Polack, when consulted over long distance telephone by the local officers of the line, said thatshe thought it best to have the Cecilie held at Bar Harbor and send her Passengers and treasure overland to New York. There ts very little coal left in her bunkers. Arrangements were at once begun for carrying out the captain's advice, Aas ENGLAND TAKES OVER CANADIAN PACIFIC'S LINERS FOR WAR USE MONTREAL, Aug, 4,—Official no- tiflcation was received at the head offices of the Canaaian Pacific Ratl- way to-day that the British Govern- ment had Yequisitioned the liners Empress of Asia, Empreas of Japan Empress of Russie of the Pacitic mete heart panes said thet as soon as the bullion was delivered at New York, whether in the Cecilie or by rall, it would at once be deposite? in the Sub-Treas- ury to the credit of the firms which tried to ship it. Whether there would be @ rebate payable on the insurance fees collected for its safe delivery in London and Paris will be a matter for adjustment later. Bar Harbor is not a port of entry. The custom house is on the seaward side of Mt. Desert, but the officers there can permit the landing of the Passengers if thoy see fit. At the Custom House it was said that the landing of the passengers and cargo at Bar Harbor was per- missibie as to a ship in distress, but it was a matter iu the discretion of the Treasury Department whether the ship could be moved to New her anchorage with all passengers aboard, none | York. Officials of the North German of arcs ) ; Laoyd ea ae i DROPS B Dreadnoughts of Kaiser’s Navy in Battle Line; ‘Commander of British Fleet in the North Sea a \ SCNT MORLEY FOLLOWS BURNS BY QUTING CABRE War Policy of Sir Edward Grey Will Be Adhered to ~ by English Majority. . LONDON, Aug, 4.—Further clear- ance of the British Cabinet of mem- bers opposed to the war policy of the Government came to-day when Viscount Morley, President of the Council, submitted his resignation, John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, resigned last night because of his inability to agree with the policy decided upon. Marley submitted bis resignation as Business Talks No, 14 What effect will the great European war have upon the United States of America? Tens of thousands of workers hurry- ing abroad to the defense of their respective flags and nations will leave many positions to be filled, homes to be rented, Investments to . be made, realty hokiings to be sacri- *ficed, miscellaneous property to be sold—al; in addition t& the usual great business activity that hetps to make America the greatest nation om earth. Where to find these manifold oppor- tunities 1s emphatically answered by these firures: 790,849 World ads, were printed during the first seven months of this year— 376,908 More Than the Herald, After reading the latest war news in The World turn to The World’s great Want Directory and learn about the best opportunities to work, hire, buy, sell, rent, Cg &e., that await xan ot every TRB op tHe German &@ protest against the war policy of the Government, As a majority of mediately accepted, of Lancaster, prohibits stores of any character, Crier of the House of Commons, who ‘in full regalia read it to the crowd assembled in front of the steps lead- ing to the Royal Exchange. American firms with offices here were overwhelmed to-day with orders for canned meats. The prices quoted for this article of consumption have jumped from 10 to 80 per cent, within the last few days. SITUATION IN HAND, BANKERS DECLARE ; DISTRIBUTE MILLIONS Representative bankers were at the Sub-Treasury to-day in conference with Charles 8S. Hamlin and W. P. G. Harding of the Treasury Department, who are supervising the distribution of the $45,000,000 emergency currency received from Washington rday. Comptroller of the Currency Wil- liams, who was at the Sub-Treasury yesterday, returned to Washington inte last night after receiving assur- ances from bankers that the situation here was thoroughly in hand, —>— SCHUMANN-HEINK ASKS ASSISTANCE TO GET OUT OF GERMANY. CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, grand opera singer, to-day cabletl her attorneys in Chi- cago for assistance to get out of Ger- many, The German singer, who is naturalized American, went to Bayreuth to sing at the Wagnerlan festival, Her despatch said: “As no letters are allowed and in- tercourse with outsiders ts forbidden, we are stranded at Beyreuth n will America send for her citizens?” aie PARIS BOURSE OPEN AND DOING A LITTLE BUSINESS FOR CASH. PARIS, Aug. 4.—The Paris Bourse was not closed to-day. Business was done for cash and there were only @ few transactions, Three per cent, rentes were quoted at 76 and 3-1-3 per cents, at 84, The savings banks purchased about $70,000 of rentea, All other quotations were nominal, cnimnis WOULD DENY ALIENS r WHO GO AWAY TO FIGHT THE RIGHT TO RETURN, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—A bill to exclude from readmission into the United States al) aliens who leave to engage in a foreign war was intro- duced to-day by Representative dare Cabinet is firmly determined to carry out the policy outlined by Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons, the resignation was expected to be im- ‘A third resignation was announced this evening, that of Charles F, G Masterman, Chancellor of the Duchy An official decree issued to-day the exportation of war It was made public in picturesque fashiom py the | tO Aes: 369 208 HOARDING OF GOLD INRNATE BARRED WITH GOLD EXPORTS Tn the American financial world to- the. al ‘eh t Onn day there was complete suspension ot| $ioaoo no In kold. Ae soon as gold payments, but an ample supply | reachas New York it will be of currency to meet all public require. | the four banks which shipped Sage | either to 0 i b jem in Burs owe abroad, Eikewiee there ‘eo trouble for bankers and mere! London, Paria and Bérlin to embed of accounts im ork. ments. Gold payments were stopped in order to put an end to the outflow of the yellow metal to Burope, and 80 effective were the bars raised that |. no one was able to withdraw any from the banks or Sub-Treasury for export, At the same time the banks put a check on the attempts of money hoarding individuals who in a few in- stances attempted to get gold or even large amounts of currency to lock up in safe deposit vaults, Bankermex- ptessed themselyea as absolutely con- fident that the precautionary meas- ures taken well in advance assure to all cities in the United States the normal meghods of continuing their daily busines@ without any money stringency The two principal measures adopted | th by the banks, stripped of all their technical phases, mean «imply this: Clearing House certificates are ts- sued to prevent gold payments. The Public never sees these certificates, for they are used only by the banks themselves in daily settlement of bal. ances at tho Clearing House. They pon gee The @ and other forsign declared Tee nd of payment of all debts. he in New bap dollars will be a al circulation. are merely certificates of sound cred- Pitas Paced ie thes wees a its and obviate the necessity of trans- | White House for President ferring actual money. Thay prevent | signature. the withdrawal of gold either from one bank by another bank or the draining out of gold for foreign ship- ment. The issue by thy National Govern- ment of emergency currency is de- signed to increase the amount of cir- culating medium at a time when credits are restricted and there is need for a great volume of currency. This emergency currency is simply an enlargement of the ordinary bank note supply and is perfectly sound, good money, Nowhere in the Wall street region was there the the financial On tl great banks were unusually quiet, business forces were in the loaa oH partments, where debtors were ar- ranging for renewal or extension of loan accounts over the present turbu- lent period, Tho banks wero meet. ing and co-operating with business men and not a ripple of disturbance appeared On tho domestic business eu No fatlures and no callin, joans were reported. wet In all circles where foreign by fless relations exist there prevails great uncertainty and troubles. Such @ complete demornlization of both —>—. : BRITAIN WARNS HER™ SHIPS TO KEEP AWAY FROM GERMAN PORTS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ¢—Tte | British Consul-General in phia, Sir Wilfred Powell, te-day ceived the following cablegram: “Urgent. 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