New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19

Iish buccaneers. have been engaged IN
singing the King OF Englsnd's beard
no one has been more fearless IN h''
seorching than Captain the Count Won
Dohna-Sehlodien.
For three months in the beginning
Of 1916. the Moewe played game OF
hide and seek with the broad sweep
of the Atlantic for = playground and
the British navy it" all the time.
From the Channel, down the coast OF
Africa. across to Brazil and back home
again, she lodged. dotting her course
with the fifteen French and English
merchant ships she captured or sank
and driving the commanders OF the
dozen cruisers sent out TO capture her
into a helpless frenzy by her clever
ness and daring.
From tire beginning the career Of the
commerce destroyer was sublime in IT'S
sudacity She slipped out Of Kiel early
in January Of 1916. q meek, inoffensive
little tramp steamer The Swedish flag
Slapped from her stern, and she passed
through the supposedly impenetrable
Gordon Of the British blockading feet
without question.
Sows Mines at Will
While still in the centre of it she be
san to sow mines. Three days she
offered down the Channel. dropping
he great iron bulbs Of death day and
night. One of these nights she
churned along for several hours full
IN the glare Of British patrol boats
searchlight She was under suspicion.
but the Moewe gave no sign that she
realized II. Only one concession she
made to the doubts of the patrol boats
commander. She dropped mines only
over the shady side Of her hull while
the sesrehlight held her.
Then, when the last mine had gone
over her side, the raider prepared for
pleasanter and more exciting business.
Her first act was 20 run between the
tramp steamers Corbridge and Earring
ford, driving, heavily laden. up the
Channel toward England. The British
ensign few from her stern as she in
trudeo, and the two shippers had no
,dee Of their peril until certain case
n:ents in the Moewe's bare sides were
thrown open and the English seamen
found themselves looking into the mUz-
z!es Of 6-inch guns.
The Farringford's crew was taken
of. and she was sunk. The Corbridge
was manned by a prize crew and fol-
lowed the raider. She carried 5000
IONS Of coal and was destined 70 act as
collier for the other craft.
Raid on African Shore
OF the coast Of Africa the Moewe
fell in with her most important find.
She overhauled the liner Appam and
forced her to surrender by several we'll
placed shrapnel shells. Her prize
Yielded a large quantity OF gold, four
British officers and thirty enlisted men,
returning from service in Africa, and
twenty German civilians who were be-
ing sent 20 concentration camps in
England.
Inc Appam was loaded with the
crews of the vessels the Moewe had
sunk and was instructed TO intern at
Newport News. She slipped past the
waiting Allied cruisers on February /
and informed.
For month after the Appsm was capt
ured the Moewe loitered along through
the sea lanes, striking like a shark
when opportunity offered, and disap-
pearing like one Of the great fish when
her task was done. During this period
she became overcrammed with prisoners
taken from destroyed vessels, and she
dumped these aboard the captured
British steamer Westburn and sent her
10 be interned in the Cansries.
Captured Fifteen Ships
When she had interned two and sunk
thirteen of the enemy's merchantmen,
the Moewe's PROV was turned home
again. Early in March she strolled back
over the path she had taken when com
ing out through the English feet, and
on March she resppeared al kiel. Thy
thunder of mighty war craft greeted
the shabby little raider as she swept
into the harbor with fifteen flags once
me property Of Germsny's enemies
whipping from her mainmast. She came
20 anchor amid the blare of Hell Dir
IN Siegerkranz," played by dozen
naval bands.
She had brought back something more
,angble than mere victor's laurels-
1879 prisoners, and 100000 marks in
gold were turned over TO the govern
nent 70 show that she had not been
die