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Show White Star Liner Suddenly Leaves Now York, Aug. 10. Loaded to her carrying capacity with provisions and coal, tho White Stnr liner Olympic Olym-pic suddenly left her pier hero today nnd sailed for Liverpool. She had been announced to sail yesterday with pausengcrs and cargo, but at. tho last moment her orders wero canceled by tho British admiralty and her passenger?) were transferred to tho Adriatic of tho same lino on which they sailed. Clearance papers were Issued to tho Olympic Friday and sho was permitted to leave the harbor without question from tho customs cus-toms or navnl authorities. As tho Olympic stenmed 'down the bay In tho misty morning sho met tho American liner Now York coming In. Cheers wero exchanged by pas scngers on tho New York nnd tile sailors on tho British vessel, which carried no passengers, nnd, it Is assumed, as-sumed, Is recalled to British waters to serve as an" nuxlllary war vessel or transport. ' The New Yor' which vas bu?.. many yenrs ago, and Is considerably less speedy than tho modern ocean, liners sailed from Cherbourg and Southampton August 1, when' only Austria and Servla were at war? The rush of Americans home , from Europe Eu-rope because of the war scarce had already set In, howover, hnd the American Am-erican liner had a capacity list. TheVe were 67b imssongora on board all told, of whom 422 were cabin passengers. pas-sengers. Captain RobortB said the steamer communicated by wireless with the British cruiser Drake Tuesday, but no war vessels had been sighted. Being Be-ing an American vessel she was In no danger of capture. The only other passenger carrying stehtner from Europe to reach port today was the Italian liner Caserta, which left Genoa July 23 and Naples on the 26th, before any hint ot war was In the air. She hhd 45 cabin and 178 steerage passengers. She encountered no warships.. An arriving vessel which feared such an 'encounter, however, was the German oil tank steamer Mhppen, which came In from Oporto In ballast. To avoid French and British warships she took a southerly course, painting her funnel black and taking all possible pos-sible precautions against capture Something of nn nlr of myBtery surrounded sur-rounded the1 sailing today ot the French steamer Vcnezla of tho Fabro line, whose destination ordinarily Is Marseilles. According to an official, however, sho cleared this time for Montreal and went out In ballast. No explanation as to why she made for tho Canadian port was forthcoming. Shipping men tonight, however, said that she might either be destined to carry French reservists abroad that were here or to take a cargo ot grain for France. |