Arizona republican., 1916-02-02
Given Up for Lost, the Appam Sails Like Ap- partition Into Hampton Roads Flying the Ger man Naval Ensign
HER CREW IS
 UNDER GUARD
Now Lies Off Old Point Comfort Waiting for State Department to De- termine Whether Subject to Intcrment.
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 NORFOLK, Feb. 1.-- Given up
 for lost days ago, the British pas
 senger liner APpam, plying in the
 West African trade, sailed like an
 apparition into Hampton Roads
 today flying the German naval en-
 sign and with her ships company
 under guard of German prize
 crew. She brought word of nys-
 terious German commerce raider,
 the MoeWe, which now roams the
 seas. and she had on board the
 crews of seven British merchant
 men and admiralty transports cap
 tured by the Moewe before she
 seized the Appam and strted her
 across the Atlantic for an Amer
 icsn port with Lieutenant Hans
 eerge of the German naval reserve
 and twenty two men in charge.
 The Appam now lies off Old
 Point Comfort, under the guns of
 Fortress Monroe, waiting for the
 state department at Washington to
 determine her status-whether she
 is a man. ofwar subject to intern
 ment or German prize. By to-
 morrow the customs authorities
 here hope to have orders to send
 the ship either to Norfolk or New
 port News. where the anxiousIy
 waiting British civilians will be
 put ashore.
 According to the story told with great reserve py Lieutenant BerSe to Collector Hamilton when he formally reported his presence in American ter ritorial waters later today, the MoeW4 captured the Appam, bound from Da- kar, French West Africa for Liverpool, after a brief show of resistance. on January lG. sixty miles north of the Madeira islands. On board the Moewe then were the crews of five vessels. previously captured, all of whom Were tr3nsferrcd to the Appam.
 From all teports tie raider is con- Verted German merchantman which has false canvas forecastle conceal ing a battery of guns of fairly large caliher. on January 17 she engaged an Australian trader, the Clan Mac Tavish, which she sank after an eXcit- ing combat with q loss of fifteen men killed on the clan MacTavish. The Appam, which was ten miles away in charge of q prize crew, steamed hur- riedly back to the scene and rescued four members Of the crew of the sink ing Clan MacTayish struggling in the water.
 Later under orders from the con- mander of the raider. Lieutenant Berg, beaded his prize for an American DOT, and parted company with the MoeWe Nothing has been seen or heard 0 the raider since, and the Appan steamed across the ocean on an un- cventful voyage. reaching the Virginia capcs at 5:45 o'clock this morning.
 on board the Appam all told are i5. ncrsons, the prize crew of twenty three; twenty German civilians wh, are on their way to England for in ternment 13S seamen captured witt the British ships; 11G passengers or the Arpam and the Appam's crew o 155.
 Lieutenant Eerge claims tie Appan IN a. illH' ol N"l' pul SoNci uHlcHt ol ficials have not yet accepted thi! view. She had one mounted rifle aboard when captured, but this wa. removed by the MoeWe, and there were no guns aboard when she reached port except small alms carried by tn prize crew.
 on January 10 the Moewe capture, and sank the British steamship Far ringford carrying 800 tons of copper ore. Later oh the same day she cap tucd the British steamship COrbridg, with a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. Tn M0eWe did not sink the vessel, bu
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