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Show GEIER CREW ARRIVES TODAY js s & & - IS UNDER MILITARY ESCORT THE Gennan cruiser G-eier at the dock in Honolulu harbor, where she was seised by American bluejackets in February of this year after her officers and crow had attempted to burn her. To the right is the U. S. tug Navajo, taking a detachment of bluejackets to board the burning Gennan. Captain and Men to Be Placed in Prison Quarters ; at Fort Douglas. UNDER guard of an entire company of infantry, 3ii5 officers and sailors of the Geier, the only regular cruiser of the German navy away from German waters when the war began between the United States and Germany, and which was seized by American Amer-ican bluejackets In Honolulu harbor. February, Feb-ruary, 1917, arrived in San Francisco aboard the army transport Sherman yesterday yes-terday morning and immediately entrained for Salt Lake, where they will be interned in-terned in the Third war prison camp at Fort Douglas. The prisoners of war. headed by Captain Cap-tain Grasshof of the Geier, and their army escort are traveling on a special train and are due to arrive in Salt Lake some time today, the exact hour being withheld for military reasons. The prisoners left Honolulu aboard the Sherman September 3, having been ordered by Hie war department de-partment transferred from Schofield barracks, bar-racks, just outside of Honolulu, where they had been held as -prisoners of war 1 since February, to the permanent military : prison camp at Fort Douglas. With the arrival at Fort Douglas today of the 365 officers and sailors of the Geier to join the officers and men of the converted con-verted German cruiser Cormoran, seized at Guam, there will be a total of 685 German Ger-man naval officers and sailors interned in the camp at the post. The new arrivals will increase the population of the prison camp to more than 700, including the sixty-five or seventy alien enemies now held in the camp. Of Good Behavior. According to report from San Francisco, the officers and men of the Geier. were in separate compartments on the trip by boat from Hawaii to the United States and they were under constant guard of the officers and ' men' of D company, nated by the commander of the department depart-ment of Hawaii as the special guard to bring the prisoners to the interne camp at Fort Douglas. The trip to San Francisco Fran-cisco was made without trouble of any sort, it is reported. The prisoners of war are said to have behaved themselves admirably. The special train bearing the prisoners and guards will be met at the depot here today by a special detachment of troops from the Third war prison company at the fort, all armed .with, repeating shotguns shot-guns and rifles. Tn addition, there will be a special cordon of cltv police and deputy sheriffs to aid the military authorities In keeping the depot building and grounds clear while the prisoners are being checked by name and turned over from the commanding officer of the guard company com-pany to the commanding officer of the prison camp. To Check on Delivery. It was announced by Colonel Arthur Williams, commandant of the prison camp, last night, that all is in readiness for reception re-ception of the prisoners. He explained that the receiving and transfer of the prisoners from the depot to the prison camp would be handled this time on the same plan as it was handled when the prisoners from the Cormoran arrived. The prisoners will be checked over at the depot and then will be loaded upon special spe-cial street cars and taken direct to the prison camp at the post, where they will be again checked, examined by the prison doctors ' and assigned to. barracks in the camp. Yesterday officers and men of the prison camp snent the day putting three sets of barracks In shape to care for the new contingent of prisoners. There is an interesting history connected connect-ed with the seizure of the Geier. the internment in-ternment of her officers and crew in Hawaii Ha-waii temporarily and their transfer to the permanent prison camp at Fort Douglas. Escapes From China. The Oeier was one' of the recularlv commissioned navy cruisers of the German Ger-man imnerial navy. At the beginning aT the world ufar. In 1914 she escaped from Tsing Tan, the German port In China, and later put in at Honolulu for coal. Captain Grasshof. commander of the cruiser, was given the usual notice in neutral ports to leave within twenty-four hours. The notice was ignored. As a result the United States naval authorities compelled him to intern his vessel. This was done. The engines were disconnected disconnect-ed and the officers and men were prtroled as the crew of an interned vessel. At the same time the collier Lockson was Interned In-terned alongside the Gefer. All went well until diplomatic relations were severed between the United States and Germany in Februnrv, 1917. At that time, on the same date that other interned in-terned vessels of German v were wrecked and damaged bv thHr crews, an attempt was made by the officers and mn of the l!er to hlir" her at the dock in Honolulu Officers and men stood about and watched the vessel slowly burn after the firei had been set and the engines partiallv wrecked. Fire Is Extinguished. The Honolulu nre department was called out. In the meantime Lieutenant Hart of the f. S. rrulser St. Louis and a detachment de-tachment of hlueiarkets went aboard the vessel. The military authorities sent Infantry In-fantry armed n ith. rifles and machine (runs to the scene, and from Toarl har-hor. har-hor. e;cht miles away, a detachment of marines was sent over In the T". S tug Navajo. They stationed themselves on the coal riles and at other points of van-lace van-lace about the Geier. Lieutenant Hart held several con'er-ences con'er-ences with Captain Grasshof of the Geier while the vessel hurned. and these flnallv resulted in Captain Grasshof surrendering his vessel to the mllitarv and naval au-thorUles. au-thorUles. The Are aboard the vessel was extinguished and the bluejackets took choree of her. Captain Grasshof and Ms men were compelled to pack their hnsiraire and were then transferred to Schofieid barracks as prisoners of war. although an actual state of war between the United States and Germany was not declared until April about two months later. y,'hen the Germans were first taken to Schofield barracks thy were Inclined to be obstinate and to refuse to work and to j stand at attention when the salute to the j union was being fired on the Fourth of July. The commanding of(Wr soon cured them of their obstinacy by compelling , them to line up and s'and at attention for two hours at a Ftreth unier the beaming rays of the Hawaiian sun. No i trouble has ben had with the Germans j sinre. It !p said, and on the trip over ' thev behaved admirably. j The G-eier, from wbi-h the pr!onerp were taken, has been repaired and will I go into the United States service this month as the cruiser Carl Schurz. being ! named for the Illustrious German patriot ' who served the T'nited States during the civl war. The coiiler Lockson has hpen repaired and named the G-ilf Port. sne : will to into the government service also, i |