The German auxiliary cruiser •Kronprinz Wilhelm' our- prised America by
putting into Hampton Roads last Sunday, and will probably be interned there. Since August 3rd, when she left New York, little had been known for certain about her Movements. When she arrived at Hampton Roads she bad little coal left in her bunkers and not much food on board. Since the beginning of the war she has been reported at various points in the South Atlantic. She is supposed to have carried out a wireless service for Admiral von Spee's squadron, and she provisioned the 'Dresden.' For some weeks she has bad on board sixty.one prisoners taken from merchantmen. The captain of the • Kronprinz Wilhelm' has spun some good yarns to reporters about his adventures. How much of these is to be placed to the credit of his imagination we do not know. What we do know is that the ' Kroraprinz Wilhelm' Bank ten British and French merchantmen—and probably sank more—and that the seas are at last free of all German raiders.
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