The daily progressive-miner., 1916-04-20
EXPLOITS OF MOEWE
 WIN ADMIRATION
AMERICAN SAILOR RETURNS GIVES DETAILS OF HIS
 EXPERIENCE.

NEW YORK, April iO.-The In ternational News Service here gives the astounding story of the return of the German raidsr Moewe to bel home port -Wilhelnsshaven. The stor,
 ~Ss tod ty one JohnBrenosn. oi S.ush rr-vaisnce. <. l.. an Ameri S.sn ss1ile ara follow:
 On the 2sth of last October. ir Hull. England, I signed aboard tn, Saxon Prince. She was a cargs steamer of S.47r net tonnage.
 Of course there ws .~ul tall q ssanlarirS. and .es. I wasni ~t- Hsus-is esEcernsl Having liveC through storms that snapped ths masts of St the deck and smashed wheel houses and rudders like e.-g. shells, the idea of the seas being dangerous did not impress us sail oruaen a lot. Besides. we had tc work and the sea was the oniy trade we knew.
 Well. the Saxon Prince took on steel rails and fittings and sailed from London for Buenos Ayres Three weeks later we arrived iu BuenOs Ayres, discharged. and took on 8 light cargo of hides and cattle products for Santos and Rio de Misunderstanding ports In Brazil We loaded with coffee for New Orleans, and in New Orleans we switched to grain and cotton. It was about the 4th of February that We left New Orleans for Hull.
 We were mixed crew-four or five Americans and the rest Scan dinaviaRs = thirty-three of us in all, including Captain James Jane- son, one of the whitest men that ever drew breath.
 There was one fellow though JohaRnsen-that wasn't liked. He was 8 Norwegian. He never said anything We could find fault wish. He was good sailor but Re wasn't popular. Johannsen knew too much German and too much about Ger many to suit some of us.
 About 6:45 on the morning of the 18th of February We were hailed by 3 German vessel. She came to- ward Us until there wasn't only about 300 feet of water between us. 4 couple of her guns spit at us and We prepared to drop the boats.
 l was doing the four-to-eight watch below. We got the word thas 3 raider had US and that 1t was every man for himself. Well, by the time we got the boats ready the Germans were coming toward us in their small boats. They took IS of and let Us stand on the deck of their raider so that we could see how they did it.
 They planted one of their bombs on the port side forward and an other forward on the starboari. They planted aaother aft near number three hatch. They touched them of and in thirty minutes the Saxon Prince disappeared with her nose in the air. + was as neat a piece Of business as I have ever seen.
 Now, mind you, we were only TOO niles west of Ireland Those Ger mans were about as much worried as If their little raider was the only ship in the world that mount cd guns. They talked about re turning to WilheImshaven with the air Of men who didn't know that there Tas British feet.
 They let us look the ship over. l learned. first of all. that she was the Pen Wing. one Of twin cargo ships built near Bremen for the west coast fruit trade. She had never made her first trip to the fruit ports She was finished just befors the war started. They i'm mediately fitted her up with guns and sent her out as a commerce destroyer.
 But I'm ahead of my story. The thing that impressed me most was the utter lack of secrecy. They told us that we were the sixteenth boat they had sunk. They even told us they expected that their cruise would go Q long way toward beiittling the strength of the Brit ish or the season.
 Under the forcastle head she mounted two s-inch guns. The fOrcastle head was false. The guns were hidden by steel plates that dropped down and left the guns clear.