The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-12

"We heard all about it by our wireless. We did not need any newspapers. We had good wireless apparatus aboard all the time and Sir Edward Grey kindly sent us several new sets when we needed them. The denial of clearance to the Odenwald was the only bad thing America has done. You simply held that ship up in Porto Rico until the British ships could come and try to catch us.'
 Lieutenant WarnelSe said that most of the 1000 passengers and sailors taken from British and other allied ships were sent from time to time by German ships to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janero, Pernam- buco and Santos. Three hundred and six ty from the French steamer Guadaloupe went sent ashore at Pernambuco.
 Several weeks ago, the officer said, the Prinz Wilhelm was getting short of coal and supplies, and some of her crew ant prisoners were afflicted by berber caused by lack of vegetable food It had hoped to get supplies from the German ship Mace donia. which was reported to have es- capped from Las Palmas several weeks ago. This vessel, they learned, however, had been captured by British vessels. This hope gone, they steamed north through the middle of the Atlantic and were in touch with events transprng re- garding the Prnz Eitel
 T. was reported tonight that the orig inal destination was New York, but that warnings were. given not to attempt to make that port. Although officers would not admit it. the Wilhelm is declared to have been waiting far out in the ocean off this port until the Eitel Friedrich was inteired As soon as this news reached her, she was ordered to make dash and to creep in through the allied ships off the Virginia coast should they remain there That four were off the capes last night was ascertained by several of the Prinz Wlhelms officers. One of them declared they were so close that the sput- tering of the wireless on the British and French warships could be heard about 3 O clock this morning The signals from four or them were plainly heard, he as- serted.
 A number of the crew of the Prinz Will helm declared the crew witnessed an en- counter between the Karlsruhe and the British cruiser Bristol.
 Saw Battle
 When off the Bermudas,'' he said, the British cruisers Bristol, Suffolk and Der wick came up and we were forced to run from them. While the Karlsruhe was engaging the British we were steam ing straight-away. We made 26 knots in that flight, and we never heard from the Karlsruhe after that except once. Our last message from her told us that the Br1StOl mad been damaged and was making for some port for repairs. and that the Karlsruhe had been only slightly damaged and no one had been killed. We then began our cruise as a warship. First we got the Indian Prince and then the La Correntna. We did not take an- other prize until November II, when we overhaued the coal laden French bark Union We needed that coal badly, too, and piled it on to our decks, dra wing rooms and first class cabin.
 "On November 2l we captured and sank the French steamer Anne de Bretagne. On December 21, just as our coal supply again was running short, we captured the British steamer Bellevue, which had about 1000 tons of coal. Our next prize was the French steamer Mont Agel. On December 23 overha uled the British steamer Hemisphere and from her se- cured 3000 tons of coal. This enabled us to proceed without fear of running short of fuel.
 "Our next capture was the British steamer Potaro, which we sent down January 10. On January 14, we came upon the British steamer Highland Brae In addition to crew of 9l she had aboard 51 passengers. We took stores from her transferred the crew and pas- sengers to the Wilhelm and sent the steamer to the bottom On the same day we overhaued the British sailing ship Wilfred M. She was loaded with fish