New York, Feb. 2
Mr. Lansing, Becretary of Btate, states that though the Appam is a prize her disposal involves further The arrival of the Appam at Nor-consideration of the Hague Conven-folk has caused a tremendous sention and the Prusso-American sation as it is the first instance of Treaty. pirates capturing a liner, while the London, Feb. 3. question of her status is likely to make a a cause célébre in Interna-It is officially announced that the United States Government has altional Law. lowed all the people on board the The German Commander has Appam to land except the German ready circulated a story that the Trize crew. Up to the present the Appain captured two British ships status of the liner has not been de-while crossing the Atlantic with th cided. object of proving that she was used Newport News, Feb. 3, as a cruiser and thus ought to be Tt has now been decided that interned. He admitted that the everybody on board the Appam ex-Appam offered no resistance and cept the prize crew is to be per-says that she was captured four mitted to land whenever they wish. days after she sailed. He took her Later. to Norfolk because he feared he would meet a British cruiser if As a result of further representations made by the German Ambas-took her to New York. When the sador, which Washington is now Appam passed Virginia Capes and considering, the great bulk of the was asked by the fortress there to people on the Appam are still on state her name she replied that she poard_ was the German cruiser Buffalo.
It is stated that the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, and the German Ambassador, Count Bernstorff, are going to Norfolk.
The former has already interviewed the Secretary of State and it is stated that he insists that the Appam be returned to her owners, in accordance with the constant British contention that s belligerent is not entitled to bring a prize into @ neutral port, which contention Germany upheld at The Hague.
The attitude of America on this question, hitherto, has been noncommittal.
The only parallel in the war is the case of the str. Tarn, which was taken into San Juan with a German prize-crew a year ago. Mr. W. J. Bryan, the Secretary of, ruled that the Tarn was a German auxiliary and ordered her to be interned.
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