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Show LINER HELD UP THREE TIMES BY WARSHIPS New York. Aug 17 --The Holland i American liner Nieuw Amsterdam flying the Dutch flag and having on board uian American refugees who had fid war?tricken Kurope. arrived in pott tonight afrer being held un ihree times by warships on her trip across from Rotterdam On August 8, five hours and a half fiul from Kuropean shores, she wa stopped by a Dutch torpedo destroyer, and forty minutes later a shot passed across her bow and three British warships war-ships surrounded her Yesterday when 37(1 miles east of Sandy Hook. 9 the cruiser Essex came alongside, af-er af-er the Nieuw Amsterdam had slowed down, in response to two shots rroui ih Briton's guns Bacb time she was held up the passenger liner sails-tied sails-tied tlp warship that she belonged to a neutral nation and Was allowed lo pi 'M-eed. The Nieuw Amsterdam brought to New York 3039 paesengers. most of them Americans. Coming across Captain Baron of the liner did not at tempt to conceal his vessel's Identic land at night burned all lights as U8U-j U8U-j al. Last Wednesday she sighted a liner with four s??.cksr paintpri gr?'. I flying no flag, speeding toward lng- I land. Captain Baron believed uer I to be the Cunard vessel Mauretania j in .Uiempted disguise. |