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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. With 1b" German naval ensign fluttering from its Ktem and in charge of a German prize crew, the British Sooth African liner Appam, given up for i i-t. i ek refuge in Hampton Roads vesterday morn-ing with tin- story of aevea vessels destroyed hy German sea raiders off the African coast. The m was captured off the Canary Islands on . ■ iary la by a German raider four davs alter it -::t,i from Dakar, British West Africa, for Plymouth. England. A note thrown from a porthole "f tb" Appam revealed th name of the Ger-■ wl -•■ prise crew bad brought the liner Into ! rt. a-, the Moewe. It sti 1 the raider had started the remarkable career from the Kiel canal. ng entirely through the British naval lines. There are 451 per* ns aboard the ship, including - seven shins sunk by the raider captured the Appam: twentv German Chilians Itelng transported from Africa to England lo be ti 1 iii detention camps. 155 members of the . 1 v li j original passengers on the An- ■ "mi and tbe prise crew of twenty two. Many of ie passengers m the Appam are women and chll •■n. There are also several high British colonial lis, who were returning to England from a hrlea. The American Ilaer Philadelphia, which started for N York wi 1 _7l passengers aboard, returned to Liverpool Sunday after having 1 ecu i:i collision in st. Georgeg -hannel with the Lireroool sailnc siiio Ben Lee. Its wireless was c rried away and the bridge wo k and several lifeboats wee smashed. but no one was hurt. Life belts were elven to the passengers and the ships boats were lowered, hot there waa no damage below the water line.
