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Show Repatriated Huns Landed in Fatherland; Behave on Voyage From U. S. Port! (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) 1 THE HAGUE, July 17. The German band on board struck up as the American transport Princess Ma-toika Ma-toika arrived in Rotterdam, from Charleston, yesterday with 1 900 ' Germans for repatriation. Captain Hink- ; ley said the voyaue v.-as uneventful. j The Germans behaved well, and a German Ger-man committee, headed by Captain Dernier, Dern-ier, former! v of the Valerland, signed a document stating tltir good treatment. The passengers all looked well and healthy and consumed -10 per cent more than fche American troops. The passengers included 731 officers and 1 U'tJ seamen of German interned ships who have heen interned in America, the rest being women and children. Owimr to lack of officers' accommodations, accommoda-tions, the officers willingly forfeited their quarters for ihe wani.'n and children, sharing quarters v, iih the crew. The transport formerly was the Princess Prin-cess Alice of th" I (a. noun;-. rr erica n line, t.'Lk1) in the Philippine islands, darnaaed as much as possible by Ihe crew, but con-ertrd con-ertrd into a transport, and ailod to Hrest twenty-six dnys after her arrival in New York. General Pershing iiispocf-d Ihe transport on the Inst trip, hanging his boat! fi-'-qucntly on tb hatch ways. Tho former German caotain of Die Matoika was also aboard, under somewhat some-what different circumstances, as ho remarked. re-marked. The only incident of the voyage was caused by a pretty young German girl who announced she was willing to pay $?n(iO to any American who would marry her rind take her back to tho stat'-g. Two of the crew who volunteered as Ihe gallant gal-lant hero to the distressed damsel were promptly and severely reprimanded by the captain. The Germans commenced cUsf mivirking this morning early and were ''heked up by the Americans aboard, and afterward went through an elaborate checking sys-lem sys-lem of thumb marks by the Germans In I the large sheds before entering. Ionc; 1 trains were waiting at tiie quays, and the German Tied Cross, assisted bv the Dutch, dist rihut rd ot carets and re fresh -nienis to the Germans on the train. The German military and na al attaches from The I lai;ue f.Iso assisted. u entrain I lie C'-rniH ns. Tha Germans also wanted to take ciiarce of disembarking and unloading unload-ing i lie ha it,; age, but were nolltely informed in-formed that the transport was American soil. The Oonnnn. all seem-.! Rind to return to tlm fatherland, but tli.l ,,ot api'KHr o f.:el they were returning to a eumiuored fountry. "'ills i no r-aee, only a temporary truce, were the words of one German. " |