The sun., 1917-01-18
British Cargoes Sent to Bot
tom and Crews Placed
on Prison Vessels.
IDENTITY OF OCEAN
TERROR A MYSTERY
Is Said to Be the vineta,
Armed With - Guns and
Four Torpedo Tubes.

"e" "erHiaii sea raioer 'hat
'i'o'e" '"e hi'''s'i 'o'uoh a'
ledst SIN weeks ago mas sunk or cap
tured twenty-four merchant ships, all
but two of them of the Entente ma
tions, off the coast of South America.
Eluding pursuit, the raider is believed
to be still at work in the trade routes
of the South Atlantic.
a Pernambuco newspaper, the formal
PcqucnO. prints a statement attributed
to the purser of the British steamer
Netherby Hall, that the raider sank
an English ship without warning and
that 400 persons are believed to have
lost their lives.
This new raider conducted opera
tions in the same manner as earlier
German craft Of the same kind. whose
exploits she has exceeded. Crews Of
sunken ships were put on captured
ships. which were told to make for
land. The first Of three such ships,
the japanese Hudson Maru, put into
the Brazilian port of Pernambuco on
Monday night, and so the presence of
the formidable German raider became
public. properly.
Hundreds of sailors Missing.
Aboard tho tI,;dson N,ru uror. ,,.
vessoI, destrovoa ha.u,ao,, ,a,o,,,,,.
12 and January II. The British steam
ship Iarrowdale, with 400 refugees
from sunken ships, has not turned up,
and no word has come from the st.
Theodore, upon which a prize crew
was placed, evidently with the inten-
tion of sending her to port with prie-
oners
Americans were in the crews Of two
OF the sunken ships. the British steam
ships King George and Georgic. The
sinking of one Danish and one Norwe-
! gian ship is reported. but by far the
greater number of those sunk were
British ships. The total value OF YES
sells and cargoes may be 1000. 900.
The identity of the German cruiser
that has broken the British control of
the seas as German raiders have
/ broken 1t before is unknown. A
Buenos Ayres despatch says she is the
protected cruiser Nineta. listed as a
/ training ship and completed twenty
years ago. Sailors at Pernambuco say
the ships name was painted out, that
she was dead black and had twelve
guns and four torpedo tubes.
ADMIRALTY Admits Losses.
The British Admiralty has admitted
that the raider has DESTROYED thirteen
ships, ten British, thus making the first
formal announcement that the German
raider whose nrcsencc has hoen wb,s-
pered about and wlrelessed over tho
Seven Seas was actually operating.
Another wireless warning was sent out
last night saying that the raider had
one black funnel and two masts and
was off Pcrnambuco last Friday. show
ing she must have escorted the Hudson
Maru almost into mort.
From the statement of the British
Admiralty and from dispatches from
Buenos Ayres and Pernambuco it ap-
pears that of twenty-four merchant
men the raider encountered she sank
twenty-one and used three as tenders
and floating prisons for the crews
Rcport is also made that four other
vessels not mentioned on the list are
) long overdue. The list follows:
Georgic-Whitc Star freighter ot
1907 tons. registered at Liverpool.
Noltaire-S,6lS tons; owned by Lam
port & Holt; built in 1913: reg!stcre,
, at Liverpool
Drina-1l.4s3 tons. Royal Ma,
steam Packet Company, Belfast: sailed
from Rio for Liverpool on December Il
Mann, To,,nIo pritiSb Ste,uer n