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Show GERMAN SAILORS HELD AT HONOLULU FREED BY COURl HONOLULU, Feb. 12, by cable to San Francisco. The seventy-six sailors from various German ships taking refuge in Hawaiian waters were released from de-1 de-1 tention today by United States Immigration Immigra-tion Inspector Halsey, acting, he said, under un-der orders from Secretary of Labor Wilson. Wil-son. Simultaneously, charges against officers of-ficers and men held for alleged destruction destruc-tion of machinery and otherwise damaging damag-ing the self-interned ships were dismissed in the federal court at the orders of the United States district attorney, who gave no reason for his action. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. Mail advices ad-vices received today from Honolulu said officers and men of the crews of the self-interned self-interned German steamships Pomniern and Prinz Waldemar had been taken into custody and held on charges of having damaged the machinery of their vessels, an offense under federal statutes. |