THE STEAMER APPAM

West Coast Times, 7 February 1916, Page 3

THE STEAMER APPAM

THE APPAM’S PASSENGERS.

GERMAN PROTEST AT THEIR

RELEASE.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS REPLY.

(By Telegraph.—Per Press Association)

(Received 8.20 p.m., Feb. sth.) NEW YORK, February 4. Commander Borg has hotly protested at the releases, claiming that the prisoners were on German territory. The Collector of Customs replied that perhaps this was so, but they were in American waters and therefore received American protection.

THE ABRAM'S FATE.

WILL AMERICAN ORDF.R HER TO

QUIT?

(Receiver!, 6.26 p.m., Feb. 6th.l LONDON, February 4

Although the Appam has been declared a prize, nothing further has been decided as to her fate or whether she will be allowed to refuge in America or lie ordered to quit. A GERMAN REPORT. WAS THE APPAM ARMED. Amsterdam, February 4.

The Cologne Gazette states that the Appam earned gulis fore and aft, and was therefore armed to attack.

IDENTITY OF HER PATROL BOAT

SYDNEY, February, 4

Naval circles here believe that the Appam’s mysterious patrol boat was the Paola, which was interned in Portngeuse West Africa, and is supposed to have escaped.

REGARDED AS A PRIZE

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT’S ATTI

TUDE,

WASHINGTON, Fehurary 4lh,

It is officially announced that Amerca regards the Appam as a German, prize of war.