Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-31

Steamer Charles Gounard, French,
5000 tons (sunk Jan. 21.)
Steamer Antonini, French, 1900 tons
(sunk Jan. 2S.)
Steamer Rouchefoucauld, French,
5000 tons (sunk Feb. 27.)
Sailing vessel Duplex, French, 5000
tons (sunk March So
FIRED ON THE RAIDER.
On March H.. survivors told of the
raider oYerhauling the sailing vessel
Hongarth. The Hongarth refused ord
ers to lay to, and Immediately opened
fire on her pursuer. One man aboard
the raider was killed and four were
wounded by her shells. Those aboard
the Cambronne described the new Ger
man raider as triple masted sailing
vessel with an auxiliary engine equip
ment of quadruple expansion gasoline
motors. She was armed with two size
able cannon and rapid fire guns and
left Germany Dec. %.
Members OF the German crew told
survivors that they were escorted by
German submarines to Iceland and that
they had an 1S-months' supply Of oil,
munitions and supplies aboard
FLEW NORWEGIAN FLAG.
In almost every case the Seeadler
adopted the strategy Of flying the
Norwegian flag and signalling to her
prospective victims that she desired to
speak to them. When the unsuspect-
ing victim hove to and the Seeadler
came within perfect range, the raid
er's crew broke out the German ensign
and opened fire. As soon as the vessel
ON he
sen: tlCws aboard, TOOK eff tie surNiV-
ors. imprisoned them, and then sunk
their prize.
The very audacity of the raiding plan
followed by the Seeadler was respon-
sible for her great success m proving
on commerce. Instead Of botuE a fast
cruiser type, like the Moewe, and the
Emden, the Seeadler, according to
survivors, was a cumbersome looking
vessel, innocent appearing in her big
spread of sails and with very slow
speed.
DUE SOUTH FROM ICELAND.
Those aboard the Cambronne said
the Seeadler's crew told them after
leaving Iceland the raider bore due
southwark. The first sinking of which
the survivors had any knowledge was
off the Madeira islands on Jan. 3. Then
judging from successive sinkings, she
turned her nose southwest across the
Atlantic. Her most recent sinkings
were reported off Trinidad, Venezuela.
AT about the time the Seeadler was
somewhere around Madeira and the
Canary islands. something mysterious
happened to one of the cable lines from
England via the Canary islands to
South America 1t was considered pos
sible here that the raider yanked up
this line and cut it.
The Seeadler was not lacking in
courage to pick out a spot near where
allied patrol vessels were still search
ing for the German raider and her con-
sorts. Even after Germany officially
reported the return to a German mort
of the Moewe and identified her as the
South American raider, British patrol
vessels still searched the south Atlantic
waters in view of reports that the
Moewe had armed and equipped sew
eral OF her prizes as auxiliary raiders
and that these auxiliaries were still at
work.
Only two Of the vessels reported
sunk in the above Rio dispatch are
listed in Lloyd's registry. They are
Gladys Royle, 1868 tons, owned by I
Westoll. and registered at Sunderland
England, and the Duplex, 22O6 tons
owned by the Societe Anonyme des
Amateurs Nantias, registered at
Nantes.
SPRING COLDS ARE DANGEROUS.
Sudden changes of temperature and