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Show GERMANS REMOVE PASSENGERS FROM j DUTCH STEAMER LONDON, Sept. 23, 11:20 p. m. The Dutch mail steamer Prinz Hendrik, which left Flushing this morning fur ! London, having on board a number of j Russians, French, Belgians and British, : inc luding some escaped war prisoners, ; was captured twenty miles out from i Flushing by the Germans and taken to i Zeebrugge, where approximately half of her sixty-four passengers were taken off. ' Several Americans wore aboard . the ' steamer, including Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American commission for Belgian relief, but these were not molested in any way. The vessel was later released and returned to Flushing, it will proceed for London Sunday. Heavy mails were aboard, among them much' from America. According to the latest advices, the American mail was not touched. t One report says a submarine made the capture; another says that the German craft was a destroyer. THE HAG UK. Holland, Sept. 23, via London. Sept. 24, 3:0$ a. m. The Zee-land Zee-land Steamer company has issued a statement thnt the steamer Prinz Hendrik Hen-drik carried ninety-eight passengers and that, sixty-four of them were detained by the Germans. |