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Show FIND MI GUIS M GEnNUN CRUISER Crews of Interned Ships in Harbor at Honolulu Destroy De-stroy Boilers. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) HONOLULU, Feb. 4. Machine guns and ammunition were found aboard the German interned ciuiser Geier, whU-h was set on fire here today by her crew. At the time the Geier interned, her commander was ordered to turn over all his arms and ammunition to United States naval officials. A number of German Ger-man merchantmen, free to go to sea at' any time, have been lying in port here. They are now Incapacitated, fires having been built by their crews under empty boilers. This work, it was admitted, was started four days ago, on advices received re-ceived by cable from the mainland. Late tonight a member of the crew of the big North German Lloyd steamer Pommern was found hiding in the bunk- ; ers of the vessel, which had been damaged dam-aged to the estimated extent of S15O.0OO by the fires her crew started. He was arrested. Total damage to German vessels ves-sels here inflicted by their crews will reach J5O0.000, according to reliable estimates. es-timates. Troops were rushed here from aJl military mili-tary posts on the island, when the fire aboard the Geier was discovered. They took entire charge of the waterfront and guards were set at all the principal manufacturing man-ufacturing plants. News that the Geier was burning was sent by the Associated Press correspondent immediately before a censorship was established, after w'hich nothing more could be sent. Incoming press dispatches were held up many hours before delivery. j |