The str. Hudson Mara arrived in Shanghai on Sunday at tiffin time and tied up alongside the O. S. K. Wharf, Yangtszepoo, with 813 Germans on board who, having been prisoners of war in Japan during hostilities. are now being repatriate ed. The men, who are housed on board very much in the same manner as were the alien enemies deported from China, contain amongst their numbers a large proportion of men from the German naval and military forces, as the uniforms many of them wore showed, and all of them were under the command of Capt. von Bodiker. 'These, we understand, are prisoners taken' at the fall of Tsingtao.
Arrangements had been made whereby those Germans having business affairs to attend to in Shanghai, or families to meet, are to be allowed ashore during' the days the ship is here. and for this purpose passes have been issued on board giving the name of the bearer and the business for which he desires to go ashore. Without one of these the Germans on the ship. cannot pass the gangway which is watched by a sergeant of the Munic'pal Police, who takes a note of the name of each man going ashore. A number of Germans resident in Shanghai, women and children with relatives on board, and occasionally a male friend or so went down to the wharf on Sunday to meet there coming ashore or hold conversation with their friends she came to the ship's side for the purpose, and in some few instances Germans were allowed on board to look for friends. The men, most of whom were lined along the ship's side, appeared in the best of health and'from those who came on to the wharf it was learned that there were no complaints.
The str. Hudson Mary with its 800 odd Germans, left Shanghai shortl after noon on Tuesday and sailed, we are informed, for Hongkong and Singapore on the voyage to Germany. The visit of these war prisoners to Shanghai has passed very quietly and there seem to have been no incident worthy of recording. No "Hymn of Hate" was sung and the visitors, almost without exception, were particularly polite and respectful to all members of the Police Force who were appointed to keep watch upon them. In general the German was evidently laying himself out to create a good impression.
Sons of the Vaterland evidently possess some occult form of wireless telegraphy and the prisoners from Japan were fully primed with what one judges to be the latest policy in their home country—Let bygones be bygones, we don't feel enmity to the English,.who are really quite good follows if only they were not so blind as to think badly of us. That, in short, seemed to be the sentiment which had been instilled into the company on board the Hudson Maru. Members of the party, presumably representa-
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