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Show FORTY' AMERICAN PRISONERS. Were Captured by Commerce Raider and Taken to Germany. Copenhagen. More than forty Americans Am-ericans were among the prisoners taken to Germany by the German commerce com-merce raider Moewe, according to Jack Benson, an American seaman, who has arrived here. The Americans, he said, now are held as prisoners of war in Germany. Benson, who for a time was a fellow fel-low prisoner of the men now held in Germany, says that nearly all of the forty men were horsemen aboard the horse transport Esmeraldas, which was sunk by the Moewe. The only exception ex-ception whom Benson was able to mention was an American named Smith, who was aboard the British armed merchantman Brecknockshire. |