Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-21
THREE AMERICANS
MEMBERS OF CREW
OF YARR0WDALE
Captured by Raider and
Taken Into German Port
by Prize Grew.
MAY RAISE COMPLICATED
QUESTION WITH BERLl IN
Shipping Men Believe at Least
Two Commerce Destroyers
Are Now at Large.
WIRELESS WARNINGS SENT orr
destruction OF British Steamer
Dramatist Described by Sur
vfvors at Pernambuco.
WIRELESS WARNINGS SENT orr
destruction OF British Steamer
Dramatist Described by Sur
vivors at Pernambuco.
rBy Ansociatad pr.au1

IBy Associated Pressl
NEW YORK, January 2o-rbr..
Americans were members OF the crar,
OF the British steamer YarrowdaI.
captured by the German raider ,,d
taken into a German port bv ,.,.
crew. according to the records OF ths
British consulate here.
Dispatches from Berlin last ,,...
said that the Yarrowdale had hroueht
IN 4es prisoners, crews from other can
tureo ships, among them 1913 subiectx
Oh neutral nations. but no mention wa.
i'iaue OF there being any American.
among them. The consulate record.
give the names OF the following Amer,-
cans as having shipped on the Var
rowdale when she left here nm D.car,
Der s.:
Dave Addison, 40 DeGraw Str.et
Brooklyn; Charles Quinn. 135 ws.t
Twelfth Street. Los Angeles. Cal. ana
Z. D. Green, Sailors Home, New york
me farrowdale's crew numbered
r.y-seVen. Her cargo, consisting
chiefly of contraband, was worth abo,t
s|'ooo'ooo' shipping brokers estimated
to-day, and the ship itself. based IN
the present price Of ocean tonn,ge
between s1,5oo.ooo and sa.ooo,ooo.
The warning sent out by wireless
vessels OF tho entente allies bv tho
British authorities that the captured
BRITISH ship st. Theodore mad been
converted into a German commerce
raider was pointed to to-day by lncaI
shippfng men as tending to prove that
at least two German raiders are at
large in the Atlantic Ocean. 1t was
recalled that ship had been sunk
south of the equator within eight daya
after the Samland had sighted the
raider on December about 6Oo miles
west OF Fastnet For any vessel to
nave covered the distance in that time.
1t was said, would have been an i'm
possibility. ,
VESSEL ACTS PECULIARLY
OFF CAPE HAT"TERAS
In the discussion Of what vessels
possibly could be supplying the Ger
man raiders. the peculiar actions Off
Cape Hatteras last month of the Por-
tuguese steamer Faro. former Ger
man vessel. were recalled The Faro
formerly was the Galata
Tho vessel. II appears, was interned
in Portugal when the war started was
seized by the Portuguese government
when the latter declared war against
Germany. and under the name of Faro
Portugal Lloyd's classes her as re-
QUESTIONED by the Portuguese govern
ment. The American tank steamer
Sucrosa, which arrived here Christmas
Day. reported that off Cape Hatteras
she sighted the Faro. which steamed
across the tanker's bow. then circled
and recrossed astern and Disappeared
According to the Sucrosas officers, the
Faro appeared next day and repeated
the performance, neither time display
ing any signal to explain her mys-
terious actions The Faro put into
Newport News for coal and sailed
from there December 2S, since when
she has not been reported.
SO far no change has been made in
the arrangements for the safety OF al
lied vessels leaving this port for Eng
land or France. When the vessels fn-
ish loading in New York the captains.
1t is said, go to their respective con-
suls and receive n code message which
they send out by wireless on reaching
a certain position some 500 or 400
miles from their port OF destination
and waits until the escort meets them.
COMPLICATED ISSUE
MAY BE RAISED
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, January 20-Ger-
man Admiralty statement that neutral
subjects in the crews of vessels cap
turcd by the German raider in the
South Atlantic have been removed as
prisoners of war" will raise a compli-
Gated question if any Americans are
among them.
The whole question turns on whether
an armed merchant ship is a war
vessel, and the gulf between this coun-
try and Germany on that question is
still unbridSed OF course. Americans
on such ships could he considered as
prisoners of war only If the vessels
were considered war vessels
No indication has been received tina,
any OF the vessels sunk by the German
raider We're other than defensiveiy
armed, The State Department has held
throughout that vessel cannot be
clasScd as Il warship unless it Is under
naval orders and the naval flag and
manned by naval crews.
The Gcrman Admiralty statement
made just at this time. when the armed
ship issue between the two countries
is becoming more complicated. was
taken TO foreshadow more pro-
nounccd attitude as To the question on
tiermany's part.