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Show GERMAN SAILORS PUT MCHES Crews of Interned Ships Now Under Guard in j i Georgia Forts. j . ATLANTA, -March 27. The 7.10 ofli- ! cers aud men of the Gorman navy who sought refuge in American waters on i the cruisers Kronprinz YV'ilhelm and I Prinz Eitel Friedrich were brought to Georgia on special trains today aud placed for 6afe keeping in stockades at ir'ort McPherson aud Fort Oglethorpe, under guard of the Seventeenth infau-try. infau-try. When the train bearing the Wilhelm s crew arrived at Fort McPherson Captain Cap-tain Thierfeldt and eight German officers of-ficers wern met by olhcors of the Seventeenth infantry and taken to Colonel Noyes. After a curt introduction introduc-tion of himself, the captain presented each of the other officers and then was told by Colonel Noyes that "I have sent for you that I might know you and that you might know me.'' He had proceeded no further when Captain Thierfeldt interrupted to say: " ily men are military men, just the same as von, and we will give no pledges." '!'e have arranged to take care of you as well as possible," Colonel Noyes continued, "but .future conditions will depend largely upon yourselves." While the men were being counted retreat was sounded aud the regimental band began to play the "Star-Spangled Banner as the flag was lowered. Captain Cap-tain Thierfeldt called his men to attention at-tention until the colors were down. The Germans at Fort McPherson will be housed in five barracks, surrounded by a haTbed wire stockade thirteen feet in height. |