Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-02
Party Includes 116 Who Are
Under Strict Military Guard
Aboard Transport

merchant sailors I'm Honolulu.
They are on their way To the innmi.
;TAtion station at Angel Island and
IRE guarded by company Of United
states infantrymen from Fort Shafter.
There are H6 Germans In the party.
they include the officers and crews
II the eight ex-German refugee mer.
chant vessels tied up at this port, the
o.. j. ID. Ahlers ct Hilo. and the Solf
md Elsass at Pago-Pago, Tutuila.
American Samoa. The later arrived
lere April rs. Lila =.
The Germans are being taken To
the mainland aboard an army trans,
port which had been in Honolulu for
about ten days, having brought here
on special trip a full cargo Of. build,
ing materials for the army. On ar.
rival at the mainland they viii pro.
coed to the United States immigration
station at Angel Island for detention
there until the end OF the war Their
status is that of enemy aliens who
have been denied admission to the
United States They are not elassed
as prisoners Of war The impression
prevails In custom house circles that
ultimately they will go to Georgia 10
engage in agricultural work -
5eier,s Crew Renains Prisoners
All German naval officers and en-.
listed men held here as prisoners OF
war will remain al SchofieId Barracks
and Cashier. They include the crews
.of the interned German gunboat Geier
and the German naval collier Lock.
sun. The officers are prisoners ut
Caetner and the enlisted men at Scho-
Held They will remain at the two
United States army posts for the dur.
alton .of the war.
German Officers Well Alfred
From the local United States immi.
grafton station, where they have been
in detention since war was declared,
April 6. the merchant officers and SAIL
ors marched to Pier g, where the
transport was locked, about half an
hoar before sailing time. They were
guarded by the company Of regulars
on duty at the station, who are ac-
complaining them.
The officers we're wearing their best
clothes and appeared very jaunty and
self-possessed The sailors whom they.
formerly commanded wore ordinary
clothing and seemed 70 have made no
sfte1,nf "a dress mr. 81, urenaratforl
for their Involuntary voyage to the
mainland.
German Women Bring Carnations
At Pier 6 the men formed In two
lines, the officers at the mauka end
Of the wharf and the sailors makai.
AS soon as they had formed in line
sweefbeaTts 81 tl1es offieers arrived
win bo4ks ~ red earnations They.
8 ere s,of alI3Sved "a or1senf the man
viii the Towers buf ave The hoxes }
Il two 81 the German officsra. Who
gave zach mar, = f.araaiion II mt Il,
- coat Iapel Nearly 4 dozen at the
man Were also decorated with leis
-iten them ~ THAR families and Ger.
man friends residine here Severn 4
United states soldiers shook hands
with friends among the officers IN
permission from army officers.
After waiting & few minutes. the
order ID embark the men was given.
The sailors were embarked first.
There were Gil 81 them and they were
assirned ouafters Is fle troop class
con1fnodefionx
1fter fhe sailors had been marched
! hoard GUARDED eyerv minute by the
ar,ned rernlars. the lime came for the
german Officers To rs aboard. They
numbered 49
partinrs Are Pathetic
This was an affecting scene. Chief
0flicer Rudolf Wits OF the freighter
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