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Show I Fast Armored Cruiser Adding Another II r Chapter to Story of German Daring LINER APPAM STEAMS UP STREAM I AMID CHEERS OF BRITISH SAILORS . MU Newport News, Va., Feb. 3. When M the former British liner Appam lifted H her anchor off Old Point Comfort H I early today and proceeded up the H Names river to Newport News, there Mi : -was much activity among 244 persons Hii who had been held prisoners of the 9, Germans and who have been granted 1 jthe right to leave the ship. They EM were anxious to get ashore and get 9 ! started on their way to England, B : ' where they were bound when the Ap- B ' -pam was captured. H Pending a further decision by the Hi state department as to the status of Bl more than 200 others aboard the Ap- Hf pam, theBO persons faced a longer con- Hl' finement on the steamer. This de- Hl clslon was anxiously awaited by all HI but the members of the German prize Hi, crew because of the Indications that HI the government would rule the Ap- Hf pam was a prize of war belonging to HI Germany. Hi Captain Harrison Detained. H Captain Harrison of the Appam was H ' detained aboard with all the mem- H bers of his crew, the Germans rav- H ing raised the point that the show of H 'resistance they made when captured H h forfeited their right to be liberated. H .Twelve British subjects described by H Lieutenant Berg in a telegram to Am- H ! bassador Bernstorf f as "enemy sub- H f I jects," also are to be kept aboard the H : 'Appam. These men are believed to be H .gun pointers removed from vossels destroj'ed by the raider. H : It is the German contention that H . the Appam came into Hampton Koads H under the terms of the Prussian- H . American treaty which guarantees H ; her to her captors. The British view H ' is that the vessel should bo returned H to her owners as a prize in accord- H ance with article 21 of The Hague H : convention. H : m t British Cheer Appam. S ; It was shortly after 9 o'clock this i morning when the Appam got up an-M an-M '- - cho'r and steamed away from Old W'i Point Comfort, where she had been M ; lying. She steamed slowly by Hamp-9 Hamp-9 ton roads, passing several British M merchantment as she neared Point jjB Breeze. Loud cheers were exchanged 9 by the crews of the freighters and 3 ' the Englishmen on the Appam. The H ' freighter saluted with three resound-H resound-H ing blasts of their whistles. Hi Berg Makes No Response. H Lieutenant Berg on the bridge made Hi ' no response with the whistle of his HI prize. I H The, Appam anchored in the James. H; Immigration Officer "Williams boards' board-s' ed the vessel to pass upon the peril per-il i sons desiring to land. He wns ac-H ac-H companied by British Vice Consul : Kenworthy prepared to guarantee l( transportation and subsistence for all if the British subjects, whoso financial II troubles might otherwise . prevent II them from landing. I While passengers fretted over their II inability to get ashore the six mas-II mas-II ters of the English vessels captured It by the German raider, took a tug for It Newport News. It1 Collector Hamilton submitted a II ! memorandum to Lieutenant Berg, the HI prize officer, requesting the release HI along the lines indicated, and the lieu-It; lieu-It; tenant said that he would comply Hi with it. Hi "You will release," the memoran- H dum said, "from the steamship Ap- H pam all those persons who desire to Hi be released and who came In on Urc Hi ship, except the prize officer and HI prize crew, including any persons Hi who have been incorporated into such Hj prize crew, or acted as a part of the Hi' said crew in the navigation of the HI steamship." Hi "Is this the decision of your gov- H ; eminent?" asked Lieutenant Berg. HI : "It is," said Mr. Hamilton. H ' "Very well then, I will comply with H It," the lieutenant responded, H The ruling will mean the release H ,ot over 200 persons whom Lieutenant Hi Berg planned to hold on the Appam, H including Captain Harrison and the Hi entire crew of 155 of the Appam, 12 HI of her passeugers who belong to the He; British army or navy, according to p the prize commander's contentions, lu and twenty Germans, who wero found ll on the Appam at the time of her cap- II ture. I on |