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VOLI MK 43, M MBKK 31Fort Stanton MadeReady To ReceiveTilKXJThellt;vo a340 German SailorsOfficers and sailors front the tuttled Otman liner Columbus, interned at present and for nearly i year past on Angel Island, near San Francisco, will be moved soon to the former SCS Camp near Ft Stanton, immigration officials in Washington have announced.The CCC Camp was vacated byTfoilV1D A. Noi 'CO!on rollers two weeks ago ton .... . iifllririls inSit'poi t ro.it- cn luut-vs »•vv —i-i— -- ^nake room for the German sea-nen, and preparations for moving he sailors to their new quarters we under the supervision of theBorder Patrol, who, it is under?tood will assume guard duty overhe camp. The CCC enrollers have nuueen moved to the vacated NYA ^ta.np near Capitan. .Final preparations to receive thesailors at Ft. Stanton probably *. a . lt;* 1 .. A . a. * * . tin? I lie ofMr 1annot be completed until afterfanuary 1. In the contingent to be i loved will be some 34h of lice!ind men under command of the icuttled ship’s rapt in. \\ J’iclin H|aehne.Captain Dachne was in Fort 0. It an ton two weeks ago, it was tr earned, accompanying immigra-ion authorities, supposedly to in- nH ipect the new internment camp. ^ ind to complete arrangements forho transfer of the men. ;fNo official anouncemcnt has in leen made as to how the number }f interned membeis of the ship’s p. ;rew has been reduced to 340, since ^ it was announced in January that j)a there were 577 survivors from the sunken ship. It is assumed that be-cause of the various status of sonn of the crew mlt; mbers, they could jv be, under various maritime, inter national and immigration laws, lu sent in vat inus ways to their home jD1 land on neutial ships. pThe Germans, said to be not all Qj Nazis, are held under such a statu* Tl that they will be permitted to ,,,leave camp on pass issued from tJ the guards, for a stated purpose Aj and time. As “distressed sailors”(iterned in a neutial country, they ( vv not prisoners of war. They are ^ ^portable aliens, but they cannot A *ach their home land without the vv isk of British capture.In their internment, they ai*‘ the psponsibility of th* ir shipping p onipany with whom they were jr] mploycd, the North German Lloyd et ,ine. of which the Columbus was n he third largest luxury liner. j,All members of the crew now in- u prrw*d Mic* said to b*- of the highest (j rained technicians, suitable for ^ iivice on a ship of the Columbusyplt;* iAt the outbreak of the war in ^ September of last year, the (’ol-imbus disembarked her passon- h jcrs in Havana and fled to Vera n 'ruz. where she tied up for fur-her orders. There, (’apt Daehnt ^ eceived orders to sail for home. , ind although he knew his chances ~ for avoiding British capture were jdim, he prepan d to obey. Under (*scoit of U. S. destroyers, the Col- t umbus sailed out of the Gulf ol , Mexico to Charleston, S. C. where President Roosevelt’s cruise ship, . the Tuscaloosa, a heavy navy , cruiser, took up the escort.At a point 320 miles northwest of Bermuda, the British destroyer Hyperion raced into view to confiscate the Columbus. The British ship fired 2 shots across the bow of the Columbus and ordered herto stop.But already the Columbus’ scuttling crew which had drilled for three weeks for such an emergency, was opening cocks, and pouring a line of gasoline over the decks to the ship’s oil stores. With a Verypistol the scut tiers fired the gasoline trail, and within a short time the ship was a blazing inferno, too hot for British hands. An hour after Captain Daehne gave the older to scuttle the ship, he slid down a rope into the last lifeboat.Two men. apparently not having heard the alarm, were lost in th. blazing ship which took two and one-half hours to sink, accordingto accounts.Standing by to watch the resultsof the meeting of the Germans and British, the Tuscaloosa rescued the 577 survivors from the lifeboats.The rescued Germans wcie in terned first at Ellis Island and later moved to San Francisco.:
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Alamogordo News
Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Thu, Dec 19, 1940
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