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Show TRANSPORTS ARE TO GO TO EUROPE Washington. AuAg. 13 Follow ing a , meeting of the seneral relief hoard, i Secretary Garrison announced today 1 that six American ships, with a carry-! Ing capacity of 8000 pe'jua. will be I assembled at Newport News at an early date and sent to bring back ! Americans in Europe. In addition, vessels will be chartered in Europe, J and another meeting of the board will be held tomorrow relative to engaging more ships. Five e.f the transports now at fSol. eston will be used as relief ships. These are the Sumner. Kilpatrlck, City of .Macon and City of .Memphis!' The Cristobal o ftbe Panama railway service will also be used. Statement Issued. Tn announcing the sending of these steamers the war department issued the following statement "To make useful these boats for this work their present accommodations must he greatly enlarged lighting and sanitary systems must be extended sleeping accommodations must be in Stalled and bedding and other supplies sup-plies and necessities provided While the boats are proceeding from Galveston to Newport News all these necessities, as well as coal food, etc, will bo assembled there' and just as soon ag the necessary work can be done on the boats thev will he dispatched. It is hoped that it will take only a few daya at Newport New-port News to complete the equipment The ports for which they will sail have not as yet been settled: thev will be determined by the conditions found to oxlst at the time JihiZt hVe- a! eady announced, authorized our diplomatic representa-.h representa-.h r vEyrone charter neutral thips to brinK back Americans where-ISLSiVi where-ISLSiVi Psihle and to utilize ail available space on all commercial lines that are still operating "To such facilities will now be added add-ed the accommodations furnished by the above named trancports. After they have had their accommodations enlarged as above stated those six BblpS will accommodate 8000 passengers. passen-gers. "It must constantly be remembered that we hae a very meager source to draw upon for passenger oarrvlni; ships. There are only six transatlantic transatlan-tic liners under the American flag. They are. of course, continuing their service. The only other boats flying th" American flac that are suitable to cross the Atlantic are the coastwise coast-wise vessels These are constructed as freight carriers and assencer carrying car-rying Is a mere Incident to their bus! nesfl Their nominsl nassencer carrying carry-ing capacity is very 'small nnd It is only possible h reconstnictlnL- the Interior nn.l enlnr.qlo.cr the lifihtinq. sanitary fcwin? and other facilities that thev can be made to serve at all. This, of course, greatly Increases the difficult) of the problem with which we have to deal." Three Thousand in Paris. Paris, Aug. 13, 3.6! p. m Three thousand Americans have registered their nnmos at the American cm-bass cm-bass here and are awaiting transportation trans-portation home on the gtenmers which the government at Washincton is sendlnc to Europe, for the relief ,f the duuuuou i-Mi'.i'ns, Aaunionai nanien are being entered at the rate oi 300 or 40' dally. Two thousand others have written or telegraphed to tho American embassador from resorts outside the capital asking that -Das'; a.e He reserved for them. The American relief committee estimates esti-mates that the v.-iihincton :nvm ment If It sends enoujrh ships fn take all who wish to po that way. must provide accommodations for 700n ppr. sons The parlor car In which Baron von Schoen the Gorman embassador to to France, was sent from Paris to German) and resardlnc which complaint com-plaint had been made that the Hermans Her-mans had not returned It. reached Paris today. After wanderlne throuch Germany nnd underlining various seizures seiz-ures and releases, it was sent home bj way of Switzerland. Thousands in Italy. Geneva. Switzerland, Aus 13 7 56 p m. Eight hundred Americans have left Genoa and other Italian ports, where there are already 2000 other Americans waiting to take passage for home. The American embassador at Rome, Thomas Nelson Pace, has advised P A. Stovall, the American minister to Switzerland, that seven steamers are ready to sail, but all room has been taken Embassador Page is chartering charter-ing additional steamers. He sav.s there are S000 Americans In Italy and they continue to arrive from every frontier Sailed for New York. Copenhagen, via London, Aug IT 11:40 p. m. About 1000 Americans were passengers on the Scandinavian-American Scandinavian-American steamer Oscar 11 which sailed for New York today The steamer was so crowded that many wealth men counted themselves lucky to he able to get away In the steerage There are still many Americans ma-rconed ma-rconed here The efforts of the Amcr-1 ienn legation to charter a special vessel ves-sel to take Americans home have been unsuccessful, as no suitable steamers are available. |