Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-07
MOEWE ARRIVES
N PORT WITH
CARGO Of COLD
Berlin Announces That Commerce
Raider Is Safe in German
Harbor.
MANY BRITISH
PRISONERS ON BOARD
Craft Also Laid Out Mines to
Which Battleships Fell
Victims.

Victims.
Berlin, March 6.-Announcement
was made here Sunday that the Ger
man cruiser Moewe arrived today in
a German port She had on board a
large number OF British prisoners,
and 100000 marks in gold bars.
The statement follows:
THE naval general staff states
that H. NJ S. Moewe, commander
Captain Eurgrave Count Won Dohna-
Schildien, after a successful cruise
lasting several months, arriving today
at some home port With four British
officers, twenty-nine British marines
and sailors, 1G6 men of crews OF
enemy steamers, among them 1O3
Indians, as prisoners, and 100000
marks in gold bars.
"The vessel captured the following
enemy steamers, the greater part OF
which were sunk and small part OF
which were sent as prizes to neutral
ports:
"tThe British steamers COrhridge,
1857 tons; Author, 1896 tons; Trader
3,G0S tons; Ariadnc. 1896 tons; Drom-
only, 3,G27 tons, Farringford, 3,l46
tons; Clan, MacTavish, 5jS16 tons;
Appam, 77S1 tons; Westbnrn, $500
tons; Horace, 1886 tons; Flamenco,
4,629 tons; Saxon Prince, SAT- tons.
"The British sailing vessel Edin-
burgh, 1,473 tons.
"The French steamer iMaroni, 3,1O9
tons.
"The Belgian steamer Luxembourg,
1922 tons.
cat several points on enemy coasts
the Moewe also laid on, fnines to
which, among others, the battleship
King Edward VII. fell victims
The Moewe's capture of two of the
fifteen vessels listed by the German
admiralty has not been reported pre-.
viously. They are the Saxon Prince
and the Maroni, both of which were
engaged in the Transatlantic service.
The Saxon Prince, SAL tons gross,
352 feet long and owned by the Prince
line of Newcastle, England, was built
in Sunderland in 1899. She was last
reported on sailing from Norfork,
February u, for Manchester.
The Maroni sailed on February 19
from Bordeaux for New York. She
was built at Port de iBouc in 1909,
owned by the Compagnie Generate
-Atlantique of ;Havre, and was
312. feet long, of 3,109 tons gross.
The Moewe, previously made ia.
nous by her exploits, has performed
one of the most spectacular feats of
the war on the seas by reaching a
home port in safety. The great Ger
man naval port of Wilhelmshaven is
on the North sea, which is patrolled
with ceaseless vigilance by British
warships. 1t is through these waters,
which have been blocked off in dis
tricts for patrol by the different Brit
ish unites, that the iMoewe must have
threaded her way to home and safe
ty.
At least part of the gold captured
by the Moewe was taken from the
Appam, which put in at Newport
News several weeks ago under COM
mand of Lieutenant Berg with al
German prize crew.
Announcement was made in London
on January 10 that the British battle
ship King Edward VII. had been
blown up by mine. The place at
which the disaster occurred was not
revealed by the British admiralty. It'll
was said no lives were lost and only
two men were injured
The Moewe first became famous
when the Appam reached Newport
News with story which astonished
the world. 1t was learned that the
commerce raider had captured and
sunk seven British vessels in the
main line Of traffic between South
Africa and Europe, in addition to
seizing the Appam, which had been
almost given up for lost.
The next heard of the German raid. |
er was on the arrival at Canary
Islands late last month of the West |
burn in charge of German prize
crew. 1t was then made known that
the MOewe had sunk five more steam.
ships off the coast of Erazil.
The Saxon Prince and Maroni
probably captured by the Moewe on
her way back to Germany, as their
sailing dates show they we're both on |
the high seas toward the end of |
February.
The identy of the Moewe has not
been established here definitely. Pris. /
oners from captured ships which were
transferred to the Westburn said on
their arrival at the Canary Islands |
that the Moewes guns were smaller
than seven inches. According to one
report she was formerly a tramp
steamship, one of several which had |
been fitted out with guns as com.
merce raiders. The last previous re-
port of the Moewe was that she part
ed company with the 'Westburn on
February 9.
Count Won Donna, the Moewe's com
rander, belongs to the Schlodien or
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