The Washington herald., 1917-01-18
TEUTON RAIDER
SINKS IS SHIPS;
400 LIVES LOST
Jap Steamer, Manned by Ger
man Prize Crew, Enters
Pernambuco.
FEAR OTHER DESTR0yERs
All South America Griipped by Excite
ment of Sensational Ship
ping Raid.
By the I.ter..tss.sI New. ser,1es.)

my the 1sterAattsaaI News servtee.)
New York. Jan 1.-The mystery Of ths
German sea raider that has terrortsed
allied shipping in South Atlantic waters
Tor more than mont. was partly
cleared today when II wis learned that
the japanese steamship Hudson Maru.
with prize crew of German sailors
aboard. last Monday evening brought
into the port Of Pernambuco rs men be-
longing to the crews OF more than a
dozen ships sunk or captured by the Teu-
ton commerce destroyer
from the maze of conflicting dis
patches regarding the number Of vessels
sunk IL is impossible tonight even 10
estnate the number of vessels senf TO
the bottom the lives possibly lost, and
the damage done. Prom a British sd-
miralty statement issued this afternoon.
however, and a dispatch received late
TINS evening from Buenos Aires, n Is
Twelve British. two French and one Itsi-
isn-Nere sent down, and one, the Hud-
son Aaru. was captured.
ships worth 100000, 200.
Those sixteen ships represent a tonnsx.
close to 10000 tons. Toretber x,,h ,p,sss
cargoes they were worth spproYinnstely
s''opa The three biggest vessels sunk
We're the British steamer Georsic, from
Philadelphia to Brest dfsplacinF 1o07
tons: the Mount Temple. British. Of ~,
tons, from Montreal TO London. and the
Noltaire' British. of s,s1s tons. from I.iv-
crpool TO New York
Both The Noltaire and the Georsfe v.ro
long overdue at their respective port,
destination. Indeed. Il was the failure ~
The Voltsire to arrive here BY December
"a. the outside limit set for her making
lhls port. that first gave rise to serious
creoence In the many reports and r7urnors
about the German raider which wer. re-
peatedly substsntiated by oficlsI British
admiralty warnings
The sinking OF the Georg1c. which IA be-
ieN % to have occurred on the North At
lantte lane. prompted the assertion In local
thfppfug circles here that the Teutou se.
'rovcr, SITTER slipping through the Brsstsh
oaockadfng Gordon. must have sweep IN.
ocean from north to 50 tn
More Than One Raidert
A second theory. strongly supported bv
clrcumstanttal evidence Is that the raider
That sent the Hudson Maru to Per-
nambuco is not alone, but IL co-operat-
Ing with one OF more other raiders. the
latter active In North Atlantic waters,
AS TO the Possible loss OF hfe, there
h nothing In the many contradictory
- PchHiA oA any lhn6lDle con-
ciusion. New York was stirred early TO-
day by the published report that IL
amounted TO 400 lives
This report was and is, based SOLELY
upon assumption The British admiralty
statement says two vessels the Yarrow-
dale and st. Theodore, were captured snc
that the Ysrrowdale was captured and
sent away with about 900 men, the crews
Of others of the sunk vessels, who were
to be landed"
Buenos Aires csbled this evening that
both the St Theodore and the Ysrrow-
dale were sunk This fact how
ever, Is no indication that the
100 men mentioned by the British
admiralty and the two steamers crews
sr dead. since il is the practice Of the
German raiders Of almost continually
transferring survivors.