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Show Slips Out of Port , to Coal Warship German Liner Kronurlnz Wllhclm Leaves New York Ostensibly For Bremen . New' York, Aug. 3. Slipping quiot-ly quiot-ly out of port, Its supcrstructirc painted grnj', with C0OO tons of coal nnd no passengers on board, the German Ger-man liner Kronprinz Wllhelm may bo cnrrylng fuel to a cruiser not far outsldo Sandy Hook. It is known the wireless stntlon nt Sayi-llle, I-ong Island. 1.js been working with n German war vessel, jrobably not many miles off shore and Is said to be tho cruiser Karlsruhe. As required by marlllmo i-ulutlons tljo Kronprinz Wllhclm took out ciar-nnco ciar-nnco papers, ostensibly for Uremtn, and It Is intimated In quarters supposed sup-posed to bo well Informed that 1 would endeavor to make that port by taking a northerly route nnd pasnslng around the northerly end of Scotland. Scot-land. What It might really do alter passing out of tho harbor, however, was a question for its commander to determine after ho had read his or-de-s which, according to interprota Hon oUiort olllclals at tho steamship Pleivrlro i' W after tbc' ship .passed Sandy, Hook. Mystery shrouded tho liner's preparations prep-arations for departuro tfnd Its i-ctual sailing. On Its forward deck It car-fled car-fled a largo box, big enough '.0 contain con-tain a naval gun of considerable pow-er. pow-er. Tho vessel was constructed for lionslble use ns a Gcrmon naval re-scrvo re-scrvo unit la case of emergency r.nd Us build Is strong enough to stand tlio strain of firing n gun such an tho case might have contained. Tho German Ger-man Lloyd olllclals denied, however, the vessel had beon secretly fitted out for fighting purposes. Tho box ot. deck was declared to contain an extra, ciank shnft. Tho ship was so fully loaded that coal showed above the hatches jind It settlo.d three fpet deeper into tho water than when or dlnarlly lnden. . Tho ship can travel" at twcnty-IlYe.laotBt an bquft j Wheu tlio North German. I'loyjd lllno let It bo known thntlt , would not leave port, It' was said it .would not sail beforo midnight or later; Four hours beforo this time, howovcV, the Kronprinz loft Its pier and sterna-ed sterna-ed down tho harbor. Not only had tltc superstructure been pointed gey, bijt It was reported that when tho vessel ves-sel had crossed tho American three mllo neutrality zono Its entlro body above water would bo given the same color. Tho crow numbers 330 men. Another war move In connection with shipping in this port wn3 taken today when tho Trench government oqulsltioned tlio steamer Rochain-beau, Rochain-beau, which arrived here tonight, by ordering this French lino vessel turned turn-ed over to tho French consul nt once. Tho Rochnmbeau will become n French transport, It Is believed. Oinoials of tho North German I.loyd lino said they had received no cablo messages, as reported that the Kronprlnzessin Ceclllo, ca'rylng ?13,-000,000 ?13,-000,000 in gold, had snrely reached a German port. Olllclals of several steamship com panics conferred with tho British con-sul con-sul general R. L. Nosworthy, today on the advisability of sending out ships. ' Tho movement of ocean plying 1 vessels Is becoming smaller each day and thousands of longshoremen have been thrown out of work. Tho Whlto Star lino sold tickets but would not promlso to send,- lts ships out. Tho French lino accepted accept-ed rcso-vatlons, but not money. la I.oiralno of this lino was expected tonight to sail Wednesday nnd the St. Paul of tho American lino crowded crowd-ed almost to the rails on Friday. Tho American nnd Whlto Star lines an-! an-! nounced that Iholr vessels would not touch at Cherbourg. Tho Fnber lino sending ships fiom Now York and Providence- to Mediterranean Mediter-ranean ports, today tnnceled till Its cal'l'iff T'iIs beenm' known whan ' tho S.intT w vhlre lert Ue-o Snt r,l's, rrtirned tod", bummouod back by wireless. Tomorrow's sailing of the Louisl-anla, Louisl-anla, under American' government contract to carry malls, was canceled cancel-ed today, This will bo tho first delay de-lay of malls to Europo. It La Lor-ralno Lor-ralno 01 the French line sails Wednesday, Wed-nesday, she will carry the Lusitanla'j malls. 'Several transatlantic vessels reach ed port today .Thcyt. Included the Rochambcau; tho Anchor liner Columbia, Col-umbia, from Glasgow; the Scandlnavl-an-Amorlcun liner Frederick VIII from Copenhagen; tho Europo, Italian liner, from Naples. Tho German cruiser Karlsruhe, reported re-ported to bo In the neighborhood of this port, is, according to tho naval records, attached to tho Uast am) Amorlcau stntlou. Sho is ot 4900 tons displacement and 36,000 horse power. Wlrelcc3 Prohibited London, Aug. 3. Thp British admiralty ad-miralty has Issued an order prohibit, Ing tho use ot wireless within tho waters wa-ters of tho United Kingdom by rao"-chantuicn rao"-chantuicn which must dismantle their apparatua when ordered to ,do so. mm. |
