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Show DODGES CRUISERS FOR Sffl WEEKS North German Lloyd Liner Neckar Reaches Baltimore After Great Experience BALTIMORE hep 0 w h her rtd.me pa nted out e de k ou es boats and n a s pi nted a da k brown and e funne b ue e N German I oyd no Ne kar do ked re toda after dode ng back and for a ross tl e At; ant c fo se en weekB Captain H rsch reported that there were few das tl at the essel 1 ad been free from pursuit by a French o Engl sh a sh p from the t me she of Ila ana Cuba for Bre men Augne Al he t me he etcamed a ong w thout a ght sa e a d m o 1 lamp in the chart oora The last ( o weeks the food supply was low and the men had on y half rations each daj An In entory of the vessel e oal bunkers after he arr val si owed that there were on) about h rty tons of coa left The Neckar sa led from Baltimo e lat in Tulj fo Galve. on Tex Sne started on her retu n trip o Bremen and had put into Havana before war was de c ared Although he had been advised of the declara on of war and that it wou d be unwise to leav Ha ana. Cap tain Hlnsch determined to make a dash for Bremen When 00 mi es off the coast of Scot land the Neckar was discovered by a British cn iser which immed ately started in pursu t. Captain H nsch put on all speed swung southward and after a onB chase threw t e m ser of the rack Whi e mak ng lor &ou h America the Necka was forced back again almost to m d Atlantic by a Brit sh cruiser Both coal and food were runn ng low and Capta n Hlnsch. started for Baltimore. On the way up the coast the vessel en countered se eral fore gn warsh ps but was comparatively untroubled by them, as she keft Just within the three mile ' "it' was on this lap of the long voy age that the Neckar's crew had an un necessan scare A vessel was s ghted a few mi es awa Through his glas.es Capta n Hlnsch saw that she carried guns and without waiting to make out her flag he dashed for the m d Atlantic The other vessel stopped and Captain Hinsch once more studied her He made out that she was the Cuban cruiser Cuba Three days ago the British cruiser Lan caster was wi h n twenty miles of the Neckar but the German vessel shpped past the cm ser in the night. The reckar carried a cargo of wheat and her crew numbered '(I3 Captain Hinsch sa d he had been on the bridge from e ghteen to twenty hours each day of the run |