The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
Survivors Small Portion of Men
on Captured Ships.
German Pirates Put Notorious
Captain Kidd in Eclipse.
LIST OF VICTIMS GROWS TO 70
Jap Ship Landing Survivors in
Charge of Prize Crew.
Hudson Maru in S. A. Port Du-
plicates Appam Episode.
FLEW DANISH, BRITISH FLAG
Kept Prisoners Crowded in
Hold, Guarding Secrets.
Capt. Day of French Schooner
Tells of Raiders Exploits.
FLEW DANISH, BRITISH FLAG
Kept Prisoners Crowded in
Hold, Guarding Secrets.
Capt. Day of French Schooner
Tells of Raiders Exploits.
nv CHARLES p. STEWART.


Ruenos Aires. Jan. 1S.-The list of
victim vessels of the new German
raider which swept the Atlantic dur
ing the mast month was raised to
twenty-four today-with the posslpll-
itv that it may reach twenty-six-
Two more merchantmen, one Brit
isb and one French. are missing.
They have probably been captured or
sunk by the Teutonic sea terror 1t is
believed here.
In addition to the twenty-three yes
sells accounted for yesterday, it was
definitely established today that the
Japanese steamer Hudson Maru was
included among the raiders prizes
She arrived at Pernambuco in charge
of German crew.
Survivors landed from the Japanese
vessel told the first connected story or
the operations of the raider today
The late German sea rover left
Kiel flying the Danish flag, the sur
ViVors said.
The dispatches reporting their
stories said they declared she was in
ballast. being laden only with iron.
The German raider is not only still
at large. but she is plentifully supplied
with food and fuel taken from her
score and more captures. When she
sent the Hudson Maru thirty miles or
so to Pernambuco she turned tail and
sped away into the horizon line.
Confined Captives Below Deck.
The German adopted the greatest
precautions in guarding her plans
from the hundreds of prisoners taken
aboard her prizes. The survivors were
closely confined below decks. They
were so numerous that this cooping up
n I'd oh Narrower
the food served them was utterly in
adequate. All the survivors were bit
..r in their complaint of ill treatment.
When the raider left home waters
she carried $50 sailors and four Ger
man officers. She was we'll prOVi-
stoned but in her combing of the seas
has several times replenished her
stock of both fuel and provisions from
the cargoes and larders of her prizes
The two ships which sailed from
Pernambuco on January 10 and are
now believed also to have fallen vic
tim to the raider, are the British
steamer Paraguay and the French
frelghter Admiral Latouche Treville
Both sailed for Lisbon.
Search is being made for these two
vessels and in addition British patrol
ships are reported to be diligently
searching for the raider.
Jap steamship, Prize.
Dispatches from Rio Janeiro re-
Vealed that the Japanese steamer
Hudson Maru, which brought in sur
vivors was itself a prize. 1t was Of
ficially stated that the Hudson came
into Pernambuco under German
crew with the German flag flying at
her mast head. Her commander has
not yet made it known whether he
will intern with his prize and crew
or whether he will discharge passen-
gers. take aboard supplies and make
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himself
In the meanwhile the Brazilian gov
eminent is preparing strictest sur
VIGILANCE to prevent any violation of
neutrality laws.
The survivors landed at Pernam-
buco by the Hudson included 1873
British and Hindoos, fifty-three
French and a few additions of various
nationalities.
Altho all of them had been closely
confined aboard their captor. they
identified her as German cruiser of
the Nineta or Moewe type, but dis
guised so her warlike character was
not revealed.
These survivors do not represent by
a great number the total of those
aboard all the ships known to have
fallen victim to the German commerce
destroyer. The fate of several hun
dred others is unknown
From stories told by the survivors
at Pernambuco, the following nara
tive OF the Germnn raiders operations
may be constructed:
Ran Blockade From KieI.
The German left KieI a nuno-
Der of weeks ago and swung di-
recty southwestward across the path
of transatlantic commerce
Gradually she worked her search
of the seas southwark. taking prizes
right and left. Several of these YES
sells the raider took along with her
putting German prize crews on board
and combining the captured crew below
decks Finally the ST. Theodore >
British ship of about 5000 tons. was
chosen by the commerce DESTROYER as
the fleet prison ship" and on board
her were transferred all of the sur
vivorS.
They We're poorly fed and con-
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