The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-06-12
Search for Officer
and Men Of Eitel


~ 8 month department agents have
not located the missing Germans. AZ
Is presumed they have escaped from
the United States. The state depart
ment is prepared 20 make represen-
tations % Germany ii the fuEitives
return 70 that country.
During the RusEia-Japanese war q
Russian officer and two men, under
parole az San Francisco escaped and
reached Nladivostok Upon the state
departments representatiCf Russia
promptly returned the trio.
Lieutenant Bauer and the men who
accompanied him, left the cruiser At
Newport News, before she had in-
termed or the officers had been pa
rolled. II they are captured By the
allies while trying 20 reach Germany
they will probably De treated as ordi-
nary war prisoners,
Special agents q the department
Of justice are conducting an investi-
CATION at the instance Of the state
department. 20 which Collector Ham
ilton's report was referred.
1t appears that Brauer and the
men were not on parole because the
ship had not been intemed, but Col
lect0r Hamilton understood that he
had the word 81 Captain ThIerichens
that none 81 his officers or men would
leave the vicinity Of Newport News
while the status Of the cruiser was
/ In suspense.
eft has come to my attention" Col
I lector Hamilton reported today, that
one Lieutenant rauer, who was
either the first officer or the execu-
/ tive officer Of the PrinZ Eitel Fried
I rich when she arrived az Newport
News, Va. March 10, 1915, has left
/ the ship and Is not now aboard. There
is also reason 70 believe that Lieu
tenant Brauer may have lei the
United States and that certain other
members Of the crew Of the. Prlnz
/ Eitel Friedrich. who were ab6ard the
| ship when she arrived March 10th
are not aboard and may possibly
have also left the United States with
! Lieutenant Brauer.
"The commander Of the Prinz Eli
/ tel Friedrich admits that Lieutenant
Brauer Is not now aboard nor al
the present time Of the Prinz Eitel
/ Friedrich's crew. He states that
I Lieutenant Brauer left the Prinz
/ Eitel Friedrich soon after her arrival
I az Newport News, as did also many
/ members Of the crew who may not
/ now be aboard, and asserts that since
/ the internment Of the Prinz Eitel
and the giving Of his written parole,
/ no officers or men have been severed
from the ship.
The commanders assertion that
Lieutenant BTauer and any otter.
/ who may not now be Of the crew OF
/ the Prinz Eitel Friedrich left the
I ship before her inierument and while
/ the Prinz Eitel was az Newport News
/ suggests two interviews which ] had
/ with the commander Of the Prinl
/ Eitel shortly after the ship arrived
| az Newport News, which should b.
/ here stated.
/ The commander when offered by
me the privilege Of landing az New
/ port News for any personal business
he might have ashore after havInl
been az sea for seven months. sair
he could not leave his ship, asserting
that this not only applied to himself
but also 20 his officers and men. Wht
must remain on board.
Two days later, the commando
volunteered % me the information
that he had received from the propot
/ United States naval authorities
/ through Rear Admiral Beatty, com
handing the Norfolk navy yard, per
mission for his officers % 20 ashor
az Newport News. Norfolk. Ports
mouth Old Point Comfort Va"