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Show Ship Chased By Warship Escapes Baltimore, Sopt. 20. With hoi-name hoi-name painted out, her deckhouses, boatB und masts painted x dark b.otn and her funnel blue, the Nort.- Geriaau Lloyd linor Neckur dorKd lioi e today, after dodging '.mc'i n.il forth acrosa the At rut'o tor eevMi weoks. Captain Hlreer reported that there were Jew days that tho .efsel hi"j bc.'U free from pmsult by a F.-ench or Engllsn w,irsUlp from the time she 'left Havana, Cuba, f"r Ure men, August Q. All tho timo cho steamed along wltiout a Hfelil, sum' a dim oil lamp lit the rhnrtroor.'. The last two wek the fouti aup fly was lew and the men liml Onl.v ba't rations each dny. An inventory of the vessel a -coal bunkorn nfttt 1 of rrnval showed that thoro wore only about thirty tons of uoal left. Xho Neduur sailed, from Baltimore late in Julyjor, 'Oalveatoif, Texas, duo startod on her retnrn trip tji J.reraen an J had put mto Havana he foro war was declared. Although he had beta advised ot the declaration of war and that It would bo unwise to leave Havana, Captain Hirsch determined- to make a dash for Bremen. Bre-men. When 300 miles oft the coast of Scotlund tho Noeicar was discovered by a lirttish cruiser, which immediately immedi-ately startod iu pursuit. Captain Hlnsch put on all speed, swung coutli urd and, afte a Ions chase, throw the cruiser off the track. Wbllo making mak-ing fpr South America tho Neckar as forced baqlc again almost to mid Atlantic by a Urltlsh cruiser. Hoth coal and food wero runnln-j lov, and Captain Hlnsch stortod for Pa Uraore. On the way up tho coast the vessel eocfwitered several for elgu warships, hut was comparative ly untroubled by them, as she kept Just within the throe mile limit. It was on this lap of tbe long vjj-sge vjj-sge that tbe Nockar's crew bad an unnecessary acure. A vest.el wic siiihteil a few miles away. iSrougu his Rlusses Cftutnjn Hinsoh saw thut sbo carried guns, and without whk-ing whk-ing to make oat her flag he deehel for the mU Atlantic. The other ves sel Rtonped and Captain Hlnsch once more studied her. I'o made out thut Shn was the C'ubtin cruiser Cuba. Threo days ago the Hrltibh cuils-' Lancaster was within twouty ml . of tho Neeknr, but the Oorman vent" ' slipped past tho cruiser Jn tho ti'giit The Nrckar carried a cargo r wheat nnd her crow numbered 203 Captain Hlnsch pwld ho had been on tho bridge fiom eighteen to twenty hours each day of the run. |