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\OJ l MK *3. NVMBER 51Fort Stanton MadeReady To ReceiveTUIELITheldtvea340 German SailorsOfficers and sailors from thlt;10. Not 1r-r* -. folliscuttled German liner Columbus, ^ » year past'on Angol Island, near 1'1iCUUieu •***'■* -----nitined at present and for nearlySan Francisco, will be moved soonI) 4TorWashington have announced Si *5ail * I aiiviow, — ---- -o the former SCS Camp near I tUanton, immigration ofllcials in _The CCC Camp was vacated by I)01'• 1 * I I Oithe enrol lees two weeks ago tomake room for the German sea- ^litire under the supervision of the i!- i .. U « £» nn At* Awlant? § uvui -------*ien, and preparations for moving **he sailors to their new quartersA. A A v3order Patrol, who, it is under-tood will assume guard duty overrri ^nenlloou VP pUlhe camp The CCC cnrollecs haveeen moved to the vacated NY A ^amp near Capitan. TFinal preparations to receive thetailors at Ft. Stanton probably ^ fanuary 1. In the contingent to belaitui rv «n * v. . *........•annot be completed until aftermoved will be some 340 office! ismd men under command of the -| cut tied ship’s cfij.tr in. Wilhelm ||(aehne.Captain Dachne was in Fort C. Jtanton two weeks ago, it was earned, accompanying immigra-ion authorities, supposedly to in- nK ipect the new internment camp. md to complete arrangements for r);1 he transfer of the men. ofNo official anouncemcnt has in Hfpn made as to how the number : f interned members of the ship’s j mew has been reduced to 340, since Ju( t was announced in January that pa here were 577 survivors from the rl sunken ship. It is assumed that be- ;f cause of the various status of som» (j1( :f the crew members, they could jv be, under various maritime, international and immigration laws, Vli stmt in various wavs to their home j()1land on neutral ships. ii,The Germans, said to he not all Qj Nazis, are held under such a status pt that they will be permitted to leave camp on pass issued from u the guards, for a stated put pose Aj and time. As “distressed sailors interned in a neutial country, they are not prisoners of war. They are y* deport able aliens, but they cannot A| reach their home land without the VV(risk of British capture. 0|jIn their internment, they are the responsibility of their shipping j j company with whom they were in employed, the North German Lloyd eT Line, of which the Columbus was Jtf the third largest luxury liner. jrAll members of the crew' now in-tervHNl are said to be of the highest ^ trained technicians, suitable for {(seivice on a ship of the Columbustype. LAt the outbreak of the war in hSeptember of last year, the Col-umbus disembarked her passen- ugers in Havana and fled to Vera nCruz, where she tied up for fur-thru orders. There, (’apt. Daehru ^received orders to sail for home, ,and although he knew his chances ~for avoiding British capture* were ^slim, he prepared to obey. Under ,4escort of U. S. destroyers, the Col- (umbus sailed out of the Gulf ol ^Mexico to Charleston, S. C. wherePresident Roosevelt’s cruise ship, ythe Tuscaloosa, a heavy navy y cruiser, took up the escort. (At a point 320 miles northwest of Bermuda, the British destroyer Hyperion raced into view to con- ( liscate the Columbus. The British ship filed 2 shots across the bow ^ of the Columbus and ordered her jto stop.But already the Columbus’ scut- . fling crew which had drilled for ( three w'oeks for such an emergen- j cy, was opening cocks, and pouring ^ a line of gasoline over the decks to the ship’s oil stores. With a Very ; pistol the scuttlers 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 order to scuttle the ship, he slid down a rope into the last lifeboat.Two men, apparently not having heard the alarm, were lost in the blazing ship which took two and one-half hours to sink, according accounts.Standing by to watch the results f the meeting of the Germans and iritish, the Tuscaloosa rescued the 11 survivors from the lifeboats. The rescued Germans were in-uned first at Ellis Island and la it* t A Sun Francisco.
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Alamogordo News
Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Thu, Dec 19, 1940
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