The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-11
Cruiser Puts Into Newport News in Dis abled Condition From Long Voyage
 Covering 55,000 Miles.
Had Been Raiding Commerce Vessels in Both Pacific and Atlantic For the Past Six Months Had $50 Passengers Which Had Been
 Taken off Sunken Vessels.

Newport News, Va, March 10.-The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, after a marine-wrecking securing of Pacific and Atlantic oceans which culminated in the sink ing of an American sailing ship in the South Atlantic, January 28 last. limped into this port today and an- chored for supplies and repairs. She brought with her rescued crews and passengers of American, British, French and Russian, ships and lies at anchor tonight proud of the trophies of war that crunch the bottom of the sea but in a state of mechanical ex- haustion from the strain of a & O00- mile journey.
 The German cruiser began her ex- petition at Tsing Tau. China, last November Commander Thierichens of the Eltel Friedrich admits sinking eight merchant ships, three British, three French. one Russian and one American. The sinking of the Ameri- can ship, the William P. Frye a sail. ing vessel bound from Seattle to Queenstown with 5,2O0 tons of wheat, ntosf~ooncerned port officials here and the Washington government.
 The list of vessels sunk by the Ger. man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Fitel Friedrich as given out by Collector of Customs Hamilton late oday is as follows:
 British sailing ship Tnvercoe. w. j.. King, master, crew %; owner, Inver line of Aberdeen, Scotland; sunk February 12
 British steamship Mary Ada Short A. F DobbiHg, master, crew 28: owner, James Westoll of Sunderland. England; sunk February IS.
 French steamship Floride, Mons. sion, master, crew 7S; passengers S6; owners, Companie Generale Transat- lantique; sunk February 19.
 British steamship Willerby !. Wedgewood, master; crew 27: owners Ropner & Co, of West Hartlepool sunk February 20.
 Russian sailing ship Isabel Browne. AXmar Eriksson, master, crew 13 owner Thornberg, Finland; sunk January 27.
 French sailing ship Pierre Loti. Tranchant, master, crew 24: owners, Society Nouvelle Darmoment of Nan tes, France; sunk January 27.
 American sailing ship William P. Frye H. H. Kiehne, master, crew 31: owner, Arthur Sewall & Co.,, Bath, Me; sunk January 28. Cargo or wheat from Setattle, Wash, to Queenstown, England, for orders. de- clared to be contraband by German cruiser
 French sailing ship Jacobsen. V LerouX master, crew g; Society les Voilers. Dunkerquois. France; sunk January 2S.
 II. II. Kiehne of Baltimore. master of the American ship, after leaving the Eitel Friedrich with Customs Col lector Hamilton today told of his ex- perience. With him were his wife and two children.
 Despite my protestations that l was the American master of an Amer ican ship, the Eitel Friedrich sank the Frye, on the morning of January 2S blowing a gaping hole through her vitals with a charge of dynamite, said Captain Giehne
 ''It was almost becalmed when the German ship appeared about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of January 27. l paid TO attention to the first order to lay to, but when the Eltel Friedrich bore down on me I brought my craft to a standstil. After learning that 1 ca1- red a cargo of wheat the German cap tain told me that it was contraband and ne intended to destroy it. I pro tested. but no attention was paid to my protestations.
 "A German officer and squad of men were sent aboard the bark and and my crew were set to work throw ing the grain overheard The German sighted another vessel, also becalmed. and made for her, returning about 10 o'clock at night after having sent the other ship to the bottom, as l after ward learned.
 Evidently the grain was not beins thrown overheard fast enough to suit the German skipper, for he sent half a hundred of his men aboard soon afterwards and the work went on for hours However. If was slow al best, and | was informed about o'clock