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Show HOT LIKEJTUSED TO BE American Port Receives First German Ship Sinco War. An assorted cargo of vivid Uoniinu war remiuiMences arrived at New York tho other ilay by the lreighter Sophie Itickmers, the first Gstiimn inerchnntmnn to como here s'mco tho beginning of tho war. As Germany penintn United Stales vessels to enter the iort of Hamburg we nulurrlly reciprocate re-ciprocate in nvsril (o our own orta, but not to tho same oxlcnl, and tlie Genusn of floors and sailors of tho Itickmers were not able to circdate their war yarns on shore, livui the skipper, Wilhelm liulscbusch, was ntlwed to IaihI only under guard, nml was escorted to the custom house to enter his ship, which flew tho old merchant mer-chant flag of his country. Sonio ox-service ox-service men employed on the army base pier in Drooklyn, where the Hick-mere Hick-mere lied up, growled over tho display dis-play of the flag nml threatened to take it down if tho skipper did not. It was lowered at sunset, and the muttering mut-tering ceased Tho officers of tho ship wore surpnsed to learn they would not bo allow eil to go ashore, saving that American shljm arriving at Hamburg were under no rmtne-tions, rmtne-tions, the crews being free to go where thoy pleased in tho Genuaii Republic. l'tntt Officer Julius I'rnhnt, who served in tho German navy, whs re-lcastd re-lcastd onlv last March from n Jatmn- ee pnson in Tokio, boftstel of the gallantry of the Gorman navy, but declined to till the ptirt he had taken in the fighting. Second Oificor Charles Kloiu was more communion-live communion-live He said he was n leading German Ger-man flior and displayed his iron cross to provo his tiruues. He shot dowli thirt)-four allied pianos on all the German fronts, lln declined to say whether ho had hurled liombs on Trench and Knglish cities Fourth Officer Otto Ltcbcrt hnd expenenco on u uuno In or and n mino sweeper and then was put aboard tho sub-marlno sub-marlno U-C7,-jwhicli destnicd so largo n iiiimber'nf sld)H that he lost all cojuu of them. Tho ynly time tlio Hiilmmring ,wnn.in ilaiigeiwasfhcu PittAuTcdciin tefrm1!f;ilwi.reTdc1)(UWrai slosoTii her n month licforo tho arniis-tice. arniis-tice. Licbcrt commanded the I -S7 when she was surrendered to l.nglaud Iiouis nurmeister, steward of the Itickmers, savs he was in charge of the ammunition mum of tho battleship battle-ship Derfliiiyer nt tho battle of the I Skagerrack in May, 1010. |