New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
Members of German Raid
er's Crew Missing More
than Month.
ESCAPED BEFORE
SHIP INTERNED
Believed to Have Left the COun-
try, but United States Will
Seek Their Return.


Washington, June L. Lieutenant
Brauer. of the German auxiliary cruiser
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Surgeon Nolte
and fourteen members Of the crew who
have broken their parole in leaving the
vessel without the consent Of this gov
eminent, will be arrested and prose-
cuted, if possible, it was said at the
Department of Justice to-day. After
Withholding for almost one month the
information that the parole had been
broken. the administration gave out
letter telling of II received from thy
Collector of Customs.
AT the Department of Justice il was
stated that the immigration laws would
furnish ample grounds for the arrest
and prosecution of the parole breakers,
even if the laws on paroles were not
ample. This question was raised be-
cause of doubt as to whether the men
had left the Prinz Eitel before or after
she officially informed
II the men left the ship before she
interned, it was pointed out by an As
sistant Attorney General, they could
still be prosecuted under the immigra-
ton laws, because they would have
come into this country illegally.
Diplomats here do not believe that
there would be eny basis for damages
to the governments OF the Allies
against the United States in the even.
that the sailors of the Prinz Eitel
Friedrich should return to Germany.
Il was pointed out, however. that IL
they did return they probably would
be forced to return TO the United
States, following not only general
presidents, but one already established
by Germany in this war. In this case
a number of German officers interned
in Holland broke their parole and re-
turned home whereupon the German
government compelled them TO 90 back
to Holland.
Escape Reported May ID.
The letter reporting the escape OF
the German sailors sent TO Andrew
Peters, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, on May 10 said:
at has come to my attention that
one Lieutenant Brauer, who was either
the first officer or the executive officer
Of the Prinz Etel Friedrich when she
arrived at Newport News, Va, March
10, 1915. has left the ship and is not
row aboard. There is also reason TO be-
leve that Lieutenant Brauer may have
left the United States and that certain
ether members Of the crew Of the Prinz
Litel Friedrich who were aboard the
ship when she arrived March 10. are
rot now aboard and may possibly have
also left the United States with Lieu
tenant Brauer.
THE commander of the Prinz Eitel
Friedrich admits that Lieutenant
Brauer is not now aboard, nor at pres
ent some of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich's
crew. He states that Lieutenant Brauer
left the Prinz Eitel Friedrich soon after
her arrival al 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 tltel
and the giving of his written parole no
officers or men have been severed from
the ship.
Through Rear Admiral Beatty, COM
handing the Norfolk Navy Yard, the
commander received permission for his
officers to go ashore at Newport News,
Norfolk. Portsmouth and Old Point
Comfort. Va. was advised by Rear Ad-
miral Beatty that he had sent permis-
sion for the landing of men from the
PrinZ Eitel when accompanied by
ruard either from Fort Monroe or the
navy, those guards to be furnished
iron the application Of the commander
Of the Prnz Eitel Friedrich.
Landed Before Internment.
"Under these conditions officers and
men from the Prinz Eitel Friedrich did
land and were ashore prior to the Prlnz
ritel's internment and the giving by
the commander of his written parole to
Rear Admiral Beatty at the Norfolk
Navy Yard"
At the State Department 1t was SAID
that the rules governing the breaking
of parole by officers of an informed
vessel were very explicit. and that the
United States government would nope
10 have the officer and the members OF
the crew of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich
who have evaded their parole brought
Lack to the Norfolk Navy Yard If they
could be located. Precedents point TO
the prompt surrei. der by Germany OF
the men so deserving If they should ar
rive in German territory. During the
Husso-Japanese War two Russian navy
men who broke their paroles given to
The United States were, upon their ar
rival on Russian soil, promptly de-
ported to the United States and COM
pelled TO remain with their interned
Shin until the end Of the war.
Paris. June IA dispatch received
tonight by the Havas News Agency
from Algeciras says it has now been
learned that the man arrested there
and at first described as the commander
of the German converted cruiser Prinz
Fitel Friedrich is not her commander,
but is either some other officer or the
ships doctor n
The man was i'll when the Prinz
Eitel stopped ut Buenos Ayres before
going to Newport News. He was lef'
in hospital and when he had re-
RUSSIANS BREAK
CEDNHA ONDT1Cu