Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — PRIZE SHIP TO BE KEPT BY CAPTORS [ARTICLE]

PRIZE SHIP TO BE KEPT BY CAPTORS

Britain Disputes Germany’s Claim, Pointing to Hague Convention Clause. Washington, Feb. 2. —Indications that the British passenger liner Appam, brought into Hampton Roads by a German prize crew, will be held by the United States to be a German prize of war and not an auxiliary cruiser, were given tonight in* high official quarters. The neutrality board, which advises the state department on such questions, announced that the ship was a prize, but the announcement was recalled later, presumably because the State department itself has not acted. The point to be decided is whether the Appam shall remain in possession of the prize crew under the terms of the Prussian-American treaty or shall be returned to her British owners under The Hague convention. Indications were given that the state department will hold that the prize belongs to Germany.