The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-31
SEA ADDER HAS
SUNK MANY SHIPS
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sign and opened fire. AS soon as thu
| overhauIed vessel surrendered, th'
Germans methodically sent crew!
aboard and took off the survivors
| imprisoned them. and then sunk theil
prize.
The very audacity OF the raidine
plan followed by the Seeadler was
responsible for her great success In
preying on commerce. instead OF be
ing fast cruiser type, like the
Moewe and the Emden, the Seead
Ter, according to survivors. was
cumbersome looking vessel, innocent
appearing in her big spread OF sails
and with very slow speed.
Those aboard the Cambronne said
the Seeadler's crew told them after
leaving Iceland the raider bore due
southwark. The first sinking of which
the survivors had any knowledge,
was cte the MADEIRA islands. OF jam
airy 8. Then, judging from successive
sinkings. she turned her nose south
west across the Atlantic. Her most
recent sinkings were reported off
Trinidad, Venezuela At about the
time the Seeadler was somewhere
around Madeira and the Canary Is
lands. something mysterious hap
pened TO one of the cable lines from
via the Canary islands to
South America 1t was considered
possible here that the raider yanked
UP this line and cut it.
The slow moving Seeadler was not
lacking in courage to pick out a spot
near where allied patrol vessels were
still searching for the German steam
raider and her consorts as the scene
OF her preying on commerce. Even
after Germany officially reported the
return to a German port OF the
Moewe and identified her as the
South American raider. British patrol
boats still searched the south Atlantic
waters in view OF reports that the
Hoewe had armed and equipped sew
eral Of her prizes as auxiliary raiders
and that these auxiliaries were still
at work.
[Only two of the vessels reported
listed in Lolyd's register. They are
the Gladys Royle, a,26s tons, owned
by ]. westoll and registered at Sun
derland. England, and the Duplex,
z. 206 tons. owned by the Societe Anon
yme Des Amateurs Nantias, regis
tered at Manifest t...
Pooling the British. -.-
BERLIN, (via Sayyille wireless)
March 31.-How German ships man
aged to elude British patrol vessels
and deliver ammunition and other
war materials to German troops IN
East Africa was described in a state
ment issued today by the official gov
eminent press bureau. The frs: at
~,
of Reserve Christensen
sailed from German port carrying
rifles. machine guns, several million
cartridges, food, clothing, sanitary
equipment and material for the
cruiser Koenigsberg. The vessel
succeeded in eluding the British I'M
til they entered the bay at their des-
tination. Then the British cruiser
Hyacinthe shelled the vessel, but al
though burning and sinking. the
cargo was nevertheless discharged
In 1915 the auxiliary cruiser Marie
tried the same thing. commanded by
Sorenson. and carrying
several thousand rifles. many mil
lions of cartridges, artillery ammuni-
ton, cannon and gun carriages for
The cruiser Koeningsberg with a
arge supply of uniforms and manu-
'acturing material The Marie also
successfully eluded the British and
arrived at Suda bay in the end of
March. Her cargo was discharged,
lnnoticed by British warship fifteen
niles distant. Then the warship
opened fire. The Marie's. crew re-
paired their damages and FIVE days
ater were again shelled Despite
his bomabrdment, when the Marie
vas struck more than a hundred
lines. the crew succeeded in repair
ng the German ship once again and
she left. The Marie proceeded to
he Indian ocean, passing an Eng
ish cruiser IN the Suda straits and
arrived May IA. 1916. in Tlandyonk,
priock.