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Show 72IEHIC1S SET IT LIBERTY BY TWER News of Release of Sailors Taken to Germany by the Yarrowdale Disposes of Irritating Question. REPORT OF NAVAL BATTLE CONFIRMED British Cruiser Amethyst Engages Three German Raiders and Emerges Victorious. BERLIN, Feb. 14, 4 p. m., via London, Lon-don, Feb. 16, 3:40 a. m. The American seamen who were brought prisoners to Germany on the British steamer Yarrowdale Yar-rowdale have been liberated. The British steamer Yarrowdale was one of the vessels captured by a German Ger-man raider in tho south Atlantic and taken into a German harbor December 31. She had 469 prisoners on board, including in-cluding seventy-two Americans, who, the German foreign secretary stated, were to be interned. The United States government demanded de-manded the release of the Americans, and it was announced that Germany had acceded to the demand. Later it was announced from Washington that the men were being held in Germany until assurances had been received from the United States as to the safe departure de-parture of Count von Bernstorff and the German consuls and the safety of German Ger-man war-bound ships in American waters. wa-ters. A dispatch from Washington Thursday said a peremptory demand for the release of the men had been prepared by the state department, and that it would go forward soon through the Spanish ambassador at Berlin. |