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Show LINER ST. LOUIS HAS SAFE TRIP! I Carries 33 Passengers and Hold Filled to Capacity With I Non-contraband Cargo. MANY SIGNS OF WAR Captain on Bridge Three Days and Nights Ship Driven Furiously. LONDON, Monday, March 26, 5:20 I p m. (Delayed by censor. From a staff correspondent of the Associated Press.) The St. Louis, the first pas-! pas-! senger vessel carrying the American , I flag to cross the Atlantic since Ger-' Ger-' many's declaration of unrestricted sub- j marine destruction and the firt armed 1 American liner to enter a European port since the war began, arrived this' , morning. She carried a meager number num-ber of passengers thirty-three all told but her holds were filled to capacity with non-contraband freight. The St. Louis came through without interruption. No submarines were sighted, nor were there at any time any indications tliat German undersea under-sea boats were after the big liner. If any of them saw the St. Louis they made no attempt to destroy her, but kept carefully away from the guns of the American ship. But signs of war were not lacking land the last three days aboard were I anxious ones for passengers and crew alike. On Friday and again on Saturday Satur-day after the St. Louis entered the J forbidden zone, driftwood was passed ' apparently parts of destroyed life i boats. Yesterday a great field of oil was encountered. Vague rumors of I the sinking of ships either ahead of or near the St. Louis increased the nervous pension. Captain on Bridge Hours. For three days and nights the captain cap-tain did not leave the bridge and nev-i er in her twenty-two years of existence has the American ship been driven so furiously as she was from the time she passed into the zone until she was I picked up by a pilot. I The journey was virtually without incident until the war zone was j reached Unusual precautions were, I taken as soon as the liner passed the1 j Ambrose light, but as she neared the I j danger zone even the life rafts and J collapsible boats were made ready for immediate use. Reflections were strung up fore and aft and carbide lifVltc ivipd ) i H olr.rrr ihi-. i . 1 c f at use In event the St Louis became the victim of a torpedo or gunfire. Liner at Top Speed. From the moment the St. Louis entered en-tered the danger zone until she reached comparatively safe waters, the word In the engine room was to "give her all she can stand." For forty-eighl hours the big vessel tore along at top speed. Meanwhile the passengers slept but little, remaining in the reading rooms with life belts ready. Long before be-fore daybreak yesterday with the hind still far below the horizon, moat ol the passengers were on deck, watching just as anxiously as the men on the : bridge for signs of hostile submarines I Then suddenly out of the haze shot I British patrol vessels. Instructions were signalled. The St. Louis responded respond-ed and continued her journey while tho submarine hunters bore uway on their ceaseless vigil. Proceeds in Howling Gnle. For two days after the St. Louis left port there was a howling gale, accompanied ac-companied with fog and frequent snow squalls, but the liner held steadily to i the course which had been determined on. nn |