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Show FRENCH -RELEASE , PURSER GARBE Washington, Dec. 27. William Gar-be Gar-be of Brooklyn, purser of the American Amer-ican steamer Borinquen, taken off by the French cruiser Descartes in Porto Rican waters, December 15, has been released. 'Advices today to the French embassy embas-sy say the other men taken from American ships by tho cruiser are being be-ing held pending investigation of their liability to military service In the German Ger-man army. Representations by the "United States against the taking of Germans from American ships now are at the Paris foreign office. Garbe, a German by birth, had taken out his first American Amer-ican naturalization papers. nn |