Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-11 | Page 1 | English Warships Patrol Holland

ENGLISH WARSHIPS PATiyiLLI) Seize All Vessels Suspected of Carrying Supplies for the Germans (Correspondence of the ABSoclated Press ) LONDON Oct 10 Every day car goes of fpodstuffs petrol and other sup plies which would be useful to Germans move with greater d ff culty into The Netherlands ports At Falmouth and other ports n the south of England war-ships war-ships are constantly escorting DutcH bottoms nto a safe refuge where they are held unt 1 the ultimate dest nation of the cargo s finally determined and unt 1 The Netherlands government g ves assurances the cargo will not be sold to Germany nor used to replace suppl es now m Holland which may be sold to the Austnans or the Germans Becently the Gelr a a b g Dutch steamer from the B ver Plate country, carry ng a large cargo of coffee and other foodstuffs was towed nto Fal mouth, where t was held for more than a week before be ng perm tted to pro ceed to Botterdam The Gelr a carried a number of German reservists who were taken off the sh p before she was finally released. Her cargo of coffee was so large an Engl sh off c al said it was estimated to be suff c ent to supply the populat on of all Holland for s x months However the ship was al lowed to proceed to her destination after The Netherlands government as suni6d respons bil ty for the cargo and guaranteed none of it would go to ene m es of the all es The Ryndam and several other Dutch sh ps wh ch have been escorted nto Ir sh ports by warsh ps, underwent sev eral Invest gations After the Eyn dam s quota of reservists was taken off at Queenstown the sh p was released only to be se zed again off the south coast of England and hauled into Fal n outh for a f ul or nvest gation of ts cargo , , Plymo th has also been a much bus er port than usual e nee the Engl sh war sh ps have been nvest gat ng Dutch ships so thoroughly Scarcely a day passes that a number of craft of vary fne s ze are not escorted into that har bor for careful inspection Up to th s t me most of the Dutch sh ps have been able to make a sat s factory explanat on and accounting after a fow day of delay and commu n cat on w th The Hague Somet mes they are rel eved of part of .their cargo and permitted to proceed with the re ma nder .... v What sense would there be n ma n ta n ng a large navy and in waging war t we were to perm t our enem es to get am u n t on and food through e t a t a p on ncut Lug 1 off c al a e 1 d s ng the ?u e of X) is We want Ho land to a e all the foodstuffs requ red for her own cop e and shall see that the lack noth ng However we cannot stan bv (Continued on Page Two) ENGLISH WAHSHIPS PATROL HOLLAND (Continued from Fago One) an 1 watch V) tch el auta su 1 1 13 1 g Uermanv a needR Ml lp arryl as te re 0 ro in 1 other a ppl ei (ea v lo tl ee ol 1 u 11 a 0 n all I el 1 led tel A ah pa an I otnr ars (la 1 eh 1 n It porlant part n thn peso t wa tl ut petrol la ol 1 0 greatest I 0 t e urmUa. an 1 VnglTa! wantl nr not pern llllni uo tra ta k h a to no e toward tie North Hqa If at tory a ran tee la ol g e un to tlo Hi ate dealt at on or the r cargo