The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-05
NINE NEW RAIDERS BUILT BY GERMANS:
 TWO ARE AT LARGE
Fleet Constructed Especially To Prey Com merce, Member of Prize Crew Tells Appam Passenger-Ca -CaptOrs of British Liner Prevent ed Mutiny By Bluff About Explosive Bombs Connected With Bridge.

Nothing would make me surrender i this ship to the British
 1 Prior to this the Appam's passen- gers had prayed that a British vessel would appear and rescue them. After | that they prayed that no British gum neFs would find them.
 Took No Notice of Insults. M c. Watson, a retired officer in | the British merchant marine, who was a. passenger on the Appam and who volunteered as third officer of her in the emergency said that the Germans expected trouble from the many Brit ishers on the Appam, but apparently the best way to avert it had been fn- | take up any insults They were re- peaaed1y called swine by some of the Engfishmen, who frequently tried 1 to pick 8 row with them, but the Ger mans never winced and maintained their guard above and below decks night and day with a deaf ear. Finally realizing that the German officer and the men under him meant every word they said and that if an ! :. ++.z2..e .1t to overpower them were made, the ship would be blown up with all on board. the Englishn1en quieted down to their pipes and diet of rice soup, boiled rice, rice cakes
 
 cheese. Alfred Osborne of Plymouth. England, Q miner on the Gold Coast, was one who told about the plotting. When he first went on board the Appam, Lieutenant Berg summoned every Brttisher of fighting age to her saloon and invited them to sign an agreement not to do any fighting for Britain with an alternative of being sent over to the raider. Every man of them signed it.
 Tried to Throw or Gun.
 Mrs. E.. Evelyn. wife of the Senior Assistant Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, who was taking a stroll on the Appam's deck at nightfa11 the day before her capture. said she saw then what she believes was the raider. It looked to her like harmless freighter. Then she noticed it chang ed it's course several times. Mrs. H. Densham-Snith, who was with her husband on. the Appam, said that she was standing on the deck when the raider appeared and that when the German boat put over a boarding party the Appam's gun crew tried to take off the breech block of her three inch gun and throw it overheard to make the gun useless. A shot from the Moewe whistled by them and they stopped their scheme in a hurry.
 Mrs. J. F. F'itzPatrick and Miss l..
 
 that the Moewe circ1ed about the Ap- pam for three hours, evidently to as- certain if the British liner were well armed.
 Sir Edward Marsh Merewether, Governor of Sierra Leone, who arriv- ed here on the Jefferson with Lady Merewether and the latter's maid, said that he and Francis James were invited on board the Moewe to talk over the wishes of the Appam's pas sengers. He said the Germans were most courteous. Incidentally, Sir Ed ward said he knew the surveying ship Moewe well and could not have mis- taken her. He said the arider was a new tramp. He denied that he was on his way to England on the lAppann to discuss blockade matters with the British officials and declared he was returning on a leave of absence.
 Sir Edward and others said that two of the shots of the Clan Mactav- ish took effect on the Moewe and one of them killed three German seamen.
 To Sail Now on Neutral Ships
 Sir Edward will sail for England on the Hol1and-American liner Noordam on Monday, as will many of the other Appam passengers. They expressed a desire to sail on 3, neutral ship.
 There were SS of the Appam's first class and nine of her second class
 
 there were 40 officers and 93 seamen of the British ships sunk aboard. The passen gers last night hurried ashore from the Old Dominion pier at the foot of Franklin street to various Io- tels Some of the Appam's passengers came here by train.
 J. G. MacPherson, Acting British Vice Consul here, took the British officers and seamen on the tug J. Hooker Hammersley to South l street pier, from which they went to 1 the lSeamen's Institute.
 Capt. Harrison and the other of ftcers and crew of the Appam left Norfolk on the steamship Hamilton last night, and will arrive here this afternoon The captured officers and crews l who arrived here last night were Capt 1 Ralph T. Yeator, with ten officers from the Author, the crew of 30 las cars having been taken on board the | raider; Capt. Evan Jones and 27 of- 1 ficers and men from the Trader; 1 Capt. David Barton and 19 men from | the Corbridge; Capt. Robert Reid and | 25 men from the Ariadne; Capt. John 1 Crockett and 24 men from the Dron- l onby, and Capt. John F. Jones and 23 men from the Barrfngford.