Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-21
Get Ready to Put to Sea.
liner prina BEACHES Port.


tons gross. which had been in the zone
merce raider and which. in some quar-
the harbor of Rio de Janeiro this morn
ing.
The Drina on her voyage received
wireless message from Dakar, Africa. re-
porting the presence of a German raid
er in the south Atlantic, and thereafter
kept a strict lookout, which enabled
her to escape.
Maru. on arriving at Pernambuco jan
uary Is. with the crews of some of the
victims of the German raider, had no
Germans on board. according to an. Off
cfal announcement made here today,
and. consequently, it is stated, the ves-
sci is absolutely free to leave port.
Earlier information from Pernambuco
had said that the Hudson Maru would
remain at that Brazilian port as a war
prize. under the jurisdiction of the Ger
man minister. and that the Brazilian
naval authorities considered the liner
German vessel.
Americans on YarrowdaIe.
NEW YORK. January 20.-Dispatches
from Berlin say that the Yarrowdale
brought in 4S9 prisoners. crews from
other captured ships. among them 1903
subjects of neutral nations, but no mem
tion was made of there being any
Americans among them. The British
consulate records give the names of
the following Americans as having
shipped on the Yarrowdale when she
left here on December 6:
Dave Addison, 45 de Graw street,
Brooklyn: Charles Quinn 135 West 18th
street. Los Angeles. Cal. and c. D.
Green. Sailors Home, New York
The 1arrowdale is registered at the
consulate as having been commanded
by Capt William Buyers of Aberdeen,
Scotland.
The Yarrowdaie's crew numbered
thirty-seven- Her cargo, consisting
chiefly of contraband. was worth about
$2,0o0,o0o. shipping brokers estimated
today. and the ship itself. based on the
present price of ocean tonnage, between
S1.500.000 and $2,000.o 900.
war risk insurance for South American
waters prevailed here today general
rates being to per cent on vessels
OF belligerent nations as compared
with an extreme high point of 10 per
cent reached Immediately following
frst reports of the German raiders ac-
t1vities. The rate on neutral-owned
ships was ! per cent today.
Transatlantic rates were higher
being about 8 or u per cent on bel
ligerent-owned ships, and neutrals as
well except American line vessels
Mediterranean rates remained firm at
10 per cent
Destruction of pramatist.
LONDON, January Ca Pernambuco
dispatch to the Daily Mail described
the capture and destruction of the
British steamer Dramatist by the Ger
man commerce raider The Dramatist
sighted the raider on December Is.
when it was seven miles distant The
German rapidly closed in ard when
alongside hofsted the German naval
ensign and signaled the Britisher to
stop. Immediately afterward ira indoors
under the bulwarks. at the raiders
forecastle were dropped, revealing two
guns OF about two-and- one -haIf-inch
caiiber trained ON The Dramatist
boatload of armed Germans boarded
the British ship. and its officers. en-
gineers and part of its crew were sent
on board the raider. The remaihder of
hours and then removed and the steGm-
er was sunk by explosives.
The crew OF the Dramatist with tn
exception OF twenty-seven Indian fire.
men, who remained on the raider, were
transferred to the Hudson Maru The
captives complain of the food and san
itary arrangements. but say that -the
Germans were courteous. as a rule. and
rpve receipts for their captures. One
receipt was signed ''Woiff'' A number
Il crew Eas a photogra phi of the
- -e'' and varfous pictures of the sink
ing Of the Nantes taken by a small
coaeeaiea camera
The men of the Dramatist say that
the raisler appears like an ordinary
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