Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-05
One Other Commerce Destroy
er Is Said to Have Broken
Through Gordon Of British
Fleet and Now Is at Work,
PLOT TO OVERCOME
PRIZE CREW BETRAYED
Lieutenant Berg'S Men Are
Said to Have Placed Bombs
About Appam to Be Explod-
ed, 0verawed Prisoners.
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! New York. Feb. Anime sea raid
ers of the type OF the Moewe have
been fitted out by the Germans and
one of them, which escaped from kiel
on New Years day with the Moewe.
has since been preying on British
commerce with as much success as
the Appam's captor, according to a
story told here tonight by Mrs. Fran
els Fuller, wife of the British gov
ernor general of Ashanti.
Mrs. Fuller was one Of the ninety
seven passengers of the Appam who
arrived here from Norfolk on board
the Old Dominion steamer jefferson.
Forty officers and ninety-three MEM
bers OF the British vessel captured by
the Mocwe and later taken in charge
by the German prize crew which
brought the Appam to American
waters also were on the jefferson.
Passed Three Enemy Cruisers.
Mrs Fuller declared that one of the
German officers who came aboard tho
Appam was authority for the state
ment that the Germans had equipped
the nine raiders at Kiel. She said he
told her the Moewe and the other
raider which esaped the British patrol
passed within a stones throw Of three
British cruisers within a few hours
after they left the Kiel canal. All the
British Officers and seamen agreed
that the raider apparently was a new
vessel of about $500 tons gross Her
coal bunkers. they said, were unusu-
ally large. as if built for long cruises
The Germans took every precaution.
they added, to shield the four guns
mounted forward and the one mount
ed aft, but they appeared to be of the
fifteen centimeter type.
Plot to Seize Crew Betrayed.
NJ. c. Watson, also a passenger on
the Appam, told of a plot to overcome
the Germans who comprised the prize
crew of the Appam. Watson, who said
he volunteered as third officer on the
Appam, declared the plot was frus-
trated through treachery and that it
would be made the subject of a report
to the British consul general in New
York.
The Germans" added Watson,
were fearful Of us and ignored many
insults that were hurled at them"
Alfred Osborne, a miner from the
Gold Coast of Africa, also told of the
plot to overcome tho Germans Both
he and Watson refused to go into de-
tails, however, saying they had been
requested to say little until the facts
were given to the British consul gen.
eral.
Not Ordered TO London.
Sir Edward Merewether, British
governor general Of Sierra Leon de-
MED published reports that he had re-
ceived cablegram from the British
admiralty directing him TO proceed to
London at once for conference on
the capture of the Appam.
lie and Lady Merewether will sail
Monday for London.
The Jefferson also brought about
forty other Britishcrs who have been
IN the service OF the African Gold
Coast colonies. They told of the pre-
cautions taken by the German prize
rev to avoid plots on board the APP
pam. Bombs, they said, were spread |
ibout the Appam and connected with |
wires and sentries warned them that |
my attempt to overpower the prize
rev would result in the ship being |
blown to pieces.