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Show SEEKS SANCTUARY III AMERICAN PORT KRONPRINZ WILHELM SLIPS PAST BRITISH CRUISERS INTO NEWPORT NEWS.' Converted Cruiser Which Has Sunk Fifteen Vessels Irr Past Eight Months Seeks tiagety In American Harbor, Newport Nows, Va. Tho German converted cruiser Kronplnz WUhohn. tho oluSlvo raider of commerco In tho South Atlantic, slipped Into this port Sunday and asked for fuel and provisions. provi-sions. Many times reported destroyed, tho formor North Qerman-Uoyd Unor had evaded hostile warships for eight months while sho sent many mor-chantmon mor-chantmon to tho bottom. Hor officers offi-cers Bald sho was forced to steal hor way past four allied cruisers off tho Virginia Capes to reach this rofugo. Tho auxiliary crluser had been atj sea 255 days, during which tlmo sho lank fifteen merchantmen. Twelvo of; these woro British, two French and ono Norwegian. Hor last vlctlma wero tho British Royal mall Btoam' ship Tamar and tho British steamer Coleby. Commander Thlerfeldt on his arrival arri-val In port explained that hla ship was badly In need of repairs. Her bottom, ho said, was foul and hor, bollor noeded overhauling. Ho stated h would request permission to havo tlio repairs made hero. Tho appoaranco of tho Kronprlnq Wllholm just ono day after tho lni tcrment of tho Prlnz Eltol Frledrlch. created great surprise. 'When las? heard from tho Kronprlnz was in tho south Atlantic. Sho had been roport-ed roport-ed sunk half a dozon times. Norman R. Hamilton, collectcr o$ customs, reached New port Nows from, Norfolk early In tho day after tho Wllholm had anchored In the Jamos, rlvor In almost tho samo place by the Prlnz Eltol when she reached hero March 10. Tho collector wont aboard, Instructing tho commander ho must leave port within twenty-four hours unless ho noeded coal and provisions and tlmo to mako repairs. |