Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-03-18
GERMAN CRUISER
At NEWPORT NEWS
PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH, AFTER
SECURING OCEANS ENTERS
PORT.
AMERICAN VESSEL A VICTIM
Cruiser Carried 800 Prisoners: Amerl.
cans, British, French and Russians
"A Problem.

Newport News, Va.-The German
auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich,
after a marine wrecking securing Of
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which cul-
minted in the sinking of an American
sailing ship in the South Atlantic
Ocean January % last limped into this
port and anchored for supplies and
repairs. She brought with her rescued
crews and passengers of American,
British, French and Russian ships and
lies at anchor In Hampton Roads
proud Of her trophies Of war that
crunch the bottom of the sea but IN
state Of mechanical exhausting from
the strain of a 5,200-mile journey.
The German cruiser began her
scouting for the ships Of the enemies
OF the Fatherland at Using Tsau,
China, last November under master
ship OF Commander Thierichens and
put into this historic port with the
admitted sinking Of eight merchant
ships, three British, three French, one
Russian and one American. The sink
ing Of the American ship, the William
P. Frye, a sailing vessel. bound from
Seattle to Queenstown with $1,000 tons
Of wheat, most concerned American
port officials here and the Washing.
ton Government ~ "
H. H. Kiehne Of Baltimore is the
master of the American ship and al
ter leaving the Eitel Friedrich with
Customs Collector Hamilton he told
dramatic story Of his experience.
With him were his wife and two chill
dren.
Despite my protestations that I
was the American master Of an Amer.
lean ship, the German cruiser Eitel
Friedrich sank the William P. Frye
on the morning of January %, blowing
gaping hole through her vitals with
a charge Of dynamite" said Captain
Kiehne.
When the German cruiser entered
this port all souls on board were in
good humor and admitted that they
had been well cared for. The cruiser
might wen have been flying many
flags because she had on board Ger.
mans, Frenchmen, Russians, English
szns stsfmsnt, North Americans,
Guth Americans, Portuguese, China
men, and others, all except the ships
officers and crew being captives Of
vessels which the cruiser had captur:.
ed and sunk In the waters Of the Pa
cifc and the Atlantic. There were
men, women, children and litter Of
puppies, born while the ship was en-
voyage. The captiyes had been allow.
ed to bring their belongings on board
and these were piled on the decks
here and there while emigrant women
squatted around, some with infant
children in their arms. Boys and girls
played In and out between parcels OF
baggage and made merry, while an In
fant only a few months old slept quiet
ly in its mothers arms.
Collector Hamilton has requested
the commander of the German vessel
not to use his wireless apparatus while
in port. Collector Hamilton will per.
NIT to be landed and delivered to the
port authorities to be forwarded to
New York some hundred and fifty
sacks of mail taken from the steamer
Floride, when 1t was bound from
Havre to South American ports.
Collector Hamilton Is under instruc.
tions to permit all passengers on the
Eitel Friedrich to land under the
direction OF the immigration authori
ties.