The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-02-02
BRITISH VESSEL
LONG MISSING IS
At TNEWPORTINEN5
APPAM CAPTURED WHEN
FOUR DAYS OUT FROM
SOUTH AFRICA.
SHE WAS CAPTURED OFF
THE CANARY ISLANDS
Teuton Submarine Made tho
Capture of Boat Having Crew
of 155 and Total of 1853
Passengers.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. l.
The British passenger liner Appam,
which had not been heard from since
January Is four days out from Dakar;
British West Africa, for Plymouth,
England, and for whose safety grave
apprehension has been expressed in
British shipping circles, arrived in
Hampton Roads this morning at 6:45
o'clock in charge of prize crew COM
manded by Lieut. Berg of the German
navy which was placed aboard the Ap-
pam when she was captured off the
Canary islands by a German sGbma-
rine.
There were a total of 451 persons
aboard the Appam, including the sur
viving members of the crews of sHyen
other ships sunk by the submarine
which captured the Appam and 20
German civilians who were being
transported from Africa to England
to be placed in detention camps. the
persons on board the Appam were
listed as follows:
Original members of Appam's crCw,
pam. 116; German prisoners bound for
British detention camps, 20; survivors
Of ships destroyed, 1873; prize crew,
%.
A large percentage of the number on
board the Appam were women. &nd
children and it is said several high CO.
lonial officials who were returning to
England from Africa. There are also
on board the captured steamer four
wounded sailors, who were taken from
one of the sunken ships, which resist
ed capture and was shelled.
The passengers and captured crews
lined the rails of the Appam this
mile off the Old Point dock and ap-
peared to evince great interest in the
hurried developments after the unher
aided arrival of the ship in Hampton
Roads,
According to the information
cleaned from those who had talked
with Lieutenant Berg, the Appam was
captured without resistance on Jan.
Is, the day that British. news reports
said wireless communication with the
vessel ceased. The prize crew was
placed on board and on the same
day the submarine which captured
the Appam gave chase to another
British steamer, which was bound
for Australia with a cargo of meat.
The meat ship gave battle and was
10 ~
her cargo had been taken off for use
by the Germans.
Six more vessels were destroyed in
rapid succession, it was stated and
the crews taken on board the Appam,
which was then headed across the
Atlantic for Hampton Roads.
The run to this pert was made
without incident, it was said.
When the Appam came within the
Virginia capes early today and took
on a pilot, the Fort Monroe wireless
station asked her who she was. The
reply was. it is stated, that she was
the German cruiser Buffalo When
Officer H. w. McCaffery went aboard
and fter his inspection brought
Lieut.. Berg ashore. The Appam was
given a clean bill of health, the four
wounded sailors being the only cases
of sickness found.
McCaffery got in touch with the Ger
man consul, L. Marshall Won Schill-
ing, and the latter was soon on the
scene at Old Point. Lieut.. Berg then
placed himself under the consul's or
ders and they proceeded to the office
of Col Ira Haynes, commander of
Fort Monroe, where the German of
ficer paid his respects and, it is said,
explained why he had given the wire
less station the name of the German
cruiser Buffalo"
Lieut. Berg and Consul Won Schill-
ing sent number. of messages to
the German embassy at Washington
and later had. conversations over the
long distance telephone with the en-