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Show AMERICAN VESSEL LEAVES NEW YORK FOR THE WAR ZONE NEW YORK, Feb. 12. With approximately approxi-mately IS, 000 tons of cargo, mostly war supplies, and 5000 bags of United States mail transferred from the American liner EH. Louis but with no passengers the British steamship Cedric of the White Star line left here today for Liverpool. The mail on the Cedric has been held here since February 3, the date on which the St. Louis was to have departed. Tne rourtn snip uncier tne American flag to sail from this port for a European destination since the German renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare got away last night. She is the 325-foot freyrhter Owego of the Federal Forwarding company, com-pany, bound for Genoa, carrying a general cargo of 2500 tons. Her master and many of her crew are Americans. The arrival today of the steamship New York removes from the high seas, temporarily tempo-rarily at least, the last of the American 1 line's fleet of six passenger vessels en- 1 gaged in the New York-Liverpool trade- 1 The New York. St. Louis, St. Paul and Kroonland are at their piers here, and the Philadelphia and Finland are in Liverpool Liver-pool a total of 65,239 gross tons of American shipping tied up, with no definite defi-nite decision as yet announced as to when it will again move. |