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Show INTERNS TAKEN p TO U.S. FORTS PHILADELPHIA. March 26. Seven hundred members of the crews of the German auxiliary cruisers Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Ftiedrich. in- iH terned at the Philadelphia navy yard H since last October, started today under 'M a heavy guard of marines for Fort Oglethorpe and Fort MePherson, Ga., where they will be kept until further orders. A large crowd held back by a cor don of marines and five hundred Phil adelphia policemon saw the departure. of the sailors. When Captain Thierlchsen of the Prinz Eitel Kriedrich, Captain Thier-feldt Thier-feldt of the Kronprinz Wilhelm anc Lieutenant Berg, who brought the Brit-ten Brit-ten steamer Appam into the Chesa-i peake capes a year ago, left the suip( tbey were given a cheer by their men The sailors were removed in re- sponso to statements from Mayo Smith and other citizens that the in-terned in-terned men were a menace to the navy yard and that part of the city where the yard is situated. No trace has been found of the two sailors who escaped last night. |