Show Um CREW BRINGS INER TO U. U Sm PORT German Submarine Captures Captures Captures Cap Cap- tures tures British Steamer Appam and Sends the Prize to N Newport e N News I PRISONERS ABOARD I I Vessel Taken Off the I. I i Canary Islands Just Before Sea Diver Had Sunk Another Ship hip NEWPORT E NEWS Va 1 Feb I I pi 1 The The British South Afric African n I Diner iner Appam given up for lost was wits brought into Hampton Roads I his morning flying the German II I m war man var flag with a German prize I cr crew of ot twenty two twenty two men commanded by Lieutenant Berg She was vas captured captured cap cap- I at sea on January 15 four days days' after she left Dakar British West Vest I I jl While Lieutenant Berg came ashore pay his respects to Colonel Hayne i commandant dant at Fortress Monroe fantine antine officers boarded the ship Meanwhile I no one was permitted to toc I c come me ashore The he Appam am brought her original 5 engerg and SS Sg p persons s said id to I ave ve been t taken ken from other vess vessels ls Ly He genT on oil board rd are are said to have lave been Jen een taken from an ad an English ship from There are persons in in- passengers and crew aboard he ship persons on the Appam are dl- dl as follows filler Her own crew passengers on the ship survivors r the seven ships destroyed in hf Gernan Gernan Ger- Ger nan sea raids ot off the African coast German prisoners bound for de- de I camps 20 prize crew 22 I Captured Off on Canary The Appam was captured of oft off the Canary islands on January 15 by a aGerman aGerman aGerman German submarine which a few hours before had bad sunk a British steamer f It Is reported here that the submarine submarine rine which took the Appam sank seven other ships and that of the atter at- at ter there were only two survivors who were Injured It is known that the Appam has four tour injured passengers aboard Lieutenant Berg denied that the Appam sank any other ships after the German prize crew took her The names of ot the steamers sunk by the tho raider which captured the Appam are given as the Trader Arthur Corbridge Cor Cor- bridge e Ariadne Farring Farring- ton Ford and Clan MacTavish It is also reported now that the raider was was' the German cruiser l instead of a submarine although this is 18 not confirmed WASHINGTON Feb 1 Customs Custom Customs Collector Hamilton at Norfolk reported re reo re- re ported to the treasury department that the ho e Gernian prize steamer Appam which came into Hampton Roads this morning lias has prisoners of ot war aboard board Ills His report was referred at once to the state department which will de de- de- de ermine the status of ot tho the vessel Tho The first report to tho the German em cm hassy bassy assy came from the Die German consul at Norfolk who telegraphed that a aGerman aGerman aGerman German auxiliary auxiliary- cruiser had come comento comento comento nto port i I Believed App Appam Lost NEW V YORK Feb l. l The The Appam I ailed sailed from Dakar in tho the French colony col col- col ony of Senegal West Africa for Ply Ply- mouth England on January 11 When I about four fou d days ys V O rele s n c cation with the vessel Budd suddenly ceased d dand and d as the days lays passed without fur furj her hm r word of her she was virtually given up for lost dispatch from Hull England to Jond London n J lords Lloyds on January 28 said the British steamship had reported having passed at sea on January 16 a lifeboat with the name Appam painted on the tho side and with the ho bows knocked knock d away It wa was feared she had gono gone down in a severe severo storm 1 pap R B. B CREW U-CREW BRINGS Continued from page 1 1 which occurred in the waters through which she was passing or possibly had encountered a German submarine operating operating op op- op- op crating on the African coast The I Appam under ordinary conditions would have reached Plymouth on January January Jan Jan- uary 21 I Noted Passengers The Appam sailed with passengers passengers passengers gers and with a 0 crew of Among the passengers were British colonial officials After Arter leaving Dakar she called at all ports on the west coast of Africa picking up officials who Intended intended intended in in- tended to return on England on fur lough laugh These men formed a considerable consid erable portion of her passenger list Among the p passengers who were I l booked to sail on the Appam were Sir Edward and Lady and their suite Frederick Seton James former acting colonial secretary and closely Identified with colonial administrative admin admin- affairs In Africa Francis Fuller Charles who was appointed chief commissioner of in 1905 and Mrs Fuller FuHer Prisoners Aboard The Appam is feet long 67 57 feet beam of ot tons tOllS gross She was built in 1913 at Belfast Ireland and was owned by the British African Steam Navigation company which is under the management of the Elder Dempster line A special dispatch received in NewYork New NewYork NewYork York from Liverpool l last st night gave the number of German prisoners on onboard onboard onboard board the Appam as twenty A statement issued by the Elder Dempster Demp ster company at Liverpool said the prisoners had been taken on board the steamship at three West African ports The British steamer Appam was captured about January 16 15 near the I Canary nary islands by a small steamer having the appearance of a tramp but heavily armed according to information information iri- iri in in- I formation obtained from Norfolk by Daniel Bacon freight agent here for forthe forthe the tho owners of the Appam |