Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1917 — Clamp Lid On N. Y. Harbor— No Vessels Permitted to Depart. [ARTICLE]

Clamp Lid On N. Y. Harbor — No Vessels Permitted to Depart.

New York, Jan. 31.—The port of New York was sealed tight tonight by order of Dudley Field Malone, collector of the .port. Vessels of every description, including tug boats, were turned back at Quarantine by the torpedo boats stationed there to mainj’r tain the neutrality of the United States. The purpose of Mr. Malone’s order remained a mystery upon which he declined to throw any light. He has full authority to act upon his own initiative in case of emergency as he is held responsible for enforcing neutrality. While there was no apparent basis for the belief that such drastic action resutled from information that one or more of the great German liners internet at Hoboken was preparing to make a dash for the open sea, it was significant that a deputy collector "conferred' tonight on the HamburgAmerican line dock with the chief of police of Hoboken and representatives of the steamship company. Thventy-four steamships, some of them the largest in the world, owned by German interests, are ti&l up at piers on the New Jersey side of the Hudson rjveK/