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Show j l - Boat Headed for Holland Coast Fails to. Reach Port; Two German Submarines Missing. MAIL BOAT FIRED UPON BUT MAKES HER ESCAPE l. THE HAGUE, via London, Feb. 22, 8:30 p. m. Inquiries of ': the coast guard stations in north Holland have brought the reply ! that nothing has been seen or heard of that part of the crew of the American steamer Evelyn who were reported to have proceeded for Holland after the steamer was blown up. A very dense fog prevailed throughout yesterday and today along the coast. The Dutch marine department is also without information c concerning the missing men of the Evelyn's crew. THE HAGUE, Feb. 22, via London, Feb. 23, 3:05 a. m. Up to midnight the thirteen missing men from the American steamer1 : Evelyn's crew had not been reported from any point in Holland. GERMAN STEAMERS MISSING! ; ' LONDON, Feb. 22, 8:45 p. m. A dispatch from Amsterdam v, to the Exchange Telegraph company says reports from the German frontier state that much uneasiness exists at the German fortified seaport of Cuxhaven concerning two large submarines which have not returned to their base. The undersea boats are said to be two !: days overdue, and it is feared they have been destroyed. MAIL BOAT FIRED UPON. PLYMOUTH, England, via London, Feb. 22, 11:50 a. m. The E; Western Daily Mercury says that when the Australian mail boat ;;: Maloja, with 400 passengers on board, was entering the English ;. channel on Saturday afternoon she was ordered to stop by an :j unknown armored merchantman. The mail boat ignored the order y and made for Plymouth, whereupon the merchantman fired five . shells at her, although they all fell short. The Maloja reached d!: Plymouth safely. ' i STEAMER SUNK IN COLLISION. s'i LONDON, Feb. 22, 2:45 p. m. The Norwegian freight steamer ' Cuba, bound from London to- Rotterdam, was sunk today in a ri- collision in the North sea. So far as is known no lives were lost. Sv The Cuba carried an official mail bag of the American com- :r': mission for the relief of Belgium. i, DENIED BY, GREAT BRITAIN. f. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Sir Edward Grey has sent to the ;f state department through the British embassy here a statement m" characterizing as a falsehood a recent statement from .Berlin ; , attributing to the British the intention to destroy an American ship in the naval war zone and charge it to a German submarine, with the expectation of precipitating a crisis between the United ji States and Germany. w The Berlin statement received in the United States by wireless w. was cabled to London by the British embassy. THE HAG UK. Netherlands, Feb. 22, via London, Feb. 23, 18:53 a. m. A w: tense undercurrent of feeling has been r running through all classes of Holland for the past two or thrco days. This j',' ia attributed to public concern owing to Germany's action in not replying to the Dutch note of protest concerning -' tho North sea' war zone and nervous-Jpj nervous-Jpj ness as to what, might result from the German blockade and submarine activity, ac-tivity, which possibly might produce S an untoward incident at any moment. p' Although vessels belonging to other neutral states have suffered, Dutch '"' ships, up to the present, have escaped W' damage, but many seamen are demand- ing increased wages owing to the risks. " Some of the men decline to sail and havo left their ships, especially those bound for England. f; Numbers of passengers for the Dutch j'; East Indies have decided to pass . ' through Germany to Genoa, in order to ; take ship there. Even the Dutch fishing boats, by gov-, gov-, , ernmental order, are to be painted in : ! the national colors, while their crews lt j have been advised to carry with them .ir:; evidences of tbeir nationality. r'.' The continued movements of troops toward the various frontier points, and th oonstant work of military engineers; on inundation works, have increased the uneasiness of the people.-' The newspapers news-papers generally refrain from commenting comment-ing on the situation. j GREAT BRITAIN I . WILL RETALIATE UPON GERMANY LONDON", Feb. 22, 10 p. m. The wasp ' of modern warfare, the submarine, by ; means of which Ocrmanv has declared 1 she will blockade the "British isles, daily becomes a factor of more and more im- i porta itce in the great war of Europ ; with respect to its influence on the poi- 1 icirs of the nations enga seed in eonnec- ' tion with the contraband question, to , vital to neutral states. I Almost coincident with the of i rial reports re-ports that Austria .proposes to fcllo'v the example of her ally uy inukin? war on merchant ships In the Adriatic came the announcement by Premier AstUith in t":e British house, of com nuns that the, nu:eh-dts'-ussed retaliatory plan of Cwo t Britain, thouch sttll tentative, was much bioader in scop than had bre-T previously sus.iresied. in that it was it matter for the' oiT.-itleration of all the allies and th.tt a Joint rote concerning it mig-U be expected from the allies. The statement was likewise made in the house of commons that the British government might deem It necessary to alter Its decision whereby coimn. up to the present, ha not. been classed as contra con-tra ba nd. The day passed without news of any additional' merchant ship, belligerent, or neutral, bavins fallen a victim to a Oilman Oil-man submarine, but throe fhijiII Priti.'h (Continued ou Fage Two.) i B MEMBERS OF EVELYN'S CREW LOST (Continued, from Page One.) : craft are missing and fears are expressed as to their fate. Amsterdam reports that two German' submarines are overdue at t heir base, Cuxha ven. but whether thy have oeen sunk fs not known. Traffic in the North sea remains somewhat liisortinzed. iinl Dutch and Scandinavian sailors are showing show-ing a reluctance to 0 to s?a, owins to the menace of bo-h submarines ;ind mine. Rrports t rom- Oopennaeeh Miat traftic te-tween te-tween Sweden and Kntrlfi.id has been temporarily discotiti-iued arc not ofticjolly con'iriTiev'l. |