Show r GERMAN RAIDER TO BE INTERNED COMMANDER OF PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH ASKS SANCTUARY FOR HIS SHIP AND CREW Had Never Intended to Intern But Escape From t Pc-t While Surrounded Surrounded Surrounded Sur Sur- rounded by Hostile W Warships Seemed Impossible Newport News Va Commander Commander S Max Max- of ot th the German auxiliary auxiliary aux aux- cruiser PrInz Eitel Friedrich V i asked the United States government through port authorities here Wednesday Wed WedS ne night to Intern his ship and cr crew v. Up Up to the last mom moment nt the German skipper kept up the of being ready for a dash to sea and when the time for decision finally came he explained that failure of expected relief to arrive had made it necessary to intern rather than deliver crew and ship to fruit fruitless ess and certain destruction by British and F French warships waiting off the Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- 0 ginia capes The German cruiser will be taken to the N Norfolk navy yard across Hampton Hampton Hamp Hamp- ton Roads from the port here where she has been laid since limping into port on March 10 after the remarkable remark remark- remarkable J abl able commerce destroying voyage the orient during which she se Ii sent the American ship William P. P Frye to the bottom K Commander declared that the action he had been forced to take made him sick that he was h heartbroken r broken to be compelled to resort to to such a step Unofficially he stated r that he had hoped for the arrival ift t tern If it were possible to prevent It German forces to do battle with the British and French warships off the American coast and thus cl dear clear ar the way for his return to the open sea C 9 |