PRINCE EITEL FRIEDRICH PUTS INTO NEWPORT

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 5

PRINCE EITEL FRIEDRICH PUTS INTO NEWPORT

SEVEN -VESSELS SUNK IN ATLANTIC; L ONE AIT AMERICAN WHEAT. SHIP. J' ■■' NEW YORK, March 12. The German armed liner Prince Eitel .Friedrich has arrived at-Newport with 326 prisoners, taken from various vessels which she sank. '" The captain of the liner states that she has put in for repairs. Since she left Easter Island,. ehje has sunk one Russian sailing ship, two French sailing ships, and one French Steamer, two British steamers, one British sailing ship, and one American sailing:ship, the William D. Frye. AMERICAN CAPTAIN'S STORY OF PIRACY. GERMANS DECLARE TBX CARGO TO BE COIfTRABAHD. NEW YORK, March 12. The captain of the American ship William D. Frye, who is amongst the prisoners landed by the Prince Eitel Friedrich, states that be left Seattle in November, bound f or-Queenstown, with 5,200 tons of wheat, valued at £60,000. The Prince Eitel Friedrich overhauled his ship in the South Atlantic on January 27, declared the cargo to be contraband, and started to jettison it. After a few hours the Germans said the operation was too slow, and they decided to destroy the ship. A message from Washington says that the American authorities are irritated at the sinking t>f the William D. Frye, and are inquiring into the incident. . " ' The Neutrality Board has recommended that the Prince Eitel Friedrich be allowed to effect repairs under the supervision of the naval authorities. SAVAGE COMMENT IN AMERICAN PRESS. SUBLIME IMPRUDENCE IK ENTERING AMERICAN PORT. (Received 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. American newspapers of all classes savagely comment on the sinking of the William D. Frye, which they describe as vandalism and piracy. The sublime imprudence of a pirate entering an American port is remarked The names of the seven Wle posted at Lloyds yesterday,were the snips nuk by the Eitel Friedrkh, not victims of the submarines.