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Show GERMAN LINER PRIZEJF WAR New York, Sept. 2. Sir Courtenay Bennett, British consul gerieraj in this city, announced this afternoon ! that he had been Informed by a truat- worthy friend that the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Kilhelm had been captured in nearbx waters by the British flotilla of cruisers and taken, a war prize, to Bermuda. His information, infor-mation, he said had not been confirmed con-firmed but he thought It true. : The Kronprinz Wllheiin sailed from New York with darkened lights and all the oal she could get aboard, a day or so before the declaration of war between Germany and Great Britain She ha? not yet been report ed as arriving at any port The im presslon pre ailed at the time of her departure that her mission was to furnish coal to German cruisers in the North Atlantic. nn |