SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 7

SHIPPING

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINER CAPTURKD. LONDON, 11th August, Morning. Advice has been received thwt a British cruisor captured the HamburgAmerika- liner Cap Ortegal, with ct million in specie on board. It i«j presumed the capture was made in Brazilian watem. [The Cap Ortegal is a steel twiuscrew steamer of 7818 tons gross register, built hi 1903.] • ■ (Received August 12, 9.25 a,m»j LONDON, 11th Auguofc.' The German steamer Cap Orfce!gal arrived at Teneriffe o*. 3rd! August from Buenos Aires. It is reported that «. British warship captured her. VESSELS SEIZED IN AUSTRALIA (Received August 12, 10 a.m.} \ „. SYDNEY, This Day. Four German vewels, the steamer Wotton. (? Wotan), adid the barque* Susanne,- Vinnen, Carl Rudgert Vinnea, and the ship Olinda have boon seized at Newcaetlo. MELBOURNE, This Day. Tho G-eman-Auetralia steamer Hobart, 5923 tons, has arrived, and ha« been seized. She only <sailed at Capetown. The captain was not aware tfrat", war had been declared. MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS, LONDON, 11th August. The Wyandotfce Transport Comp*ny!« steamer Alpena, 2886 tons, lias arrived at Port Townsend, Waelrhigton. The steamer Nestor has sailed for Sydney. WIRELESS ON FOREIGN SKIPS. NEW YORK, 10th Augu*t. The embargo placed on wireless apparatus on all foreign ships in the harbou* is to prevent the possibility of communi* cation with cruisers supposed to be off tho coast. FRENCH STEAMER SAILINGS DEFERRED. AN EMBARGO REMOVED. SYDNEY, 11th August..' The sailings of the Meseageries M«W*i times liners have all been deferred. The embargo against notifying thfc departure of oversea vessels has been re* moved. Advices have been received th*t tli« German mail steamer Roon. due at Fremantle last Monday, is sheltering in a, neutral port in Java. Many Auetraliatt passengers are aboard. [The Roon, & steamer of 8174 tons gross register, was built in 1902. The Roon kft Bremen on Ist July, and Suez on 20th July, for Australian ports.}