Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-18
Many BRITISH WARSH|PS ON TRAIL
OF DARING i'DER NSOUTHATL

it is believed they may have been sunk
or captured.
Raider Still at Large.
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 80 miles or so TO Per
nambuco, she turned tail and sped away
into the horizon line.
The German adopted the greatest pre-
cautions in guarding her plans from the
hundreds of prisoners taken aboard her
prizes The survivors were closely con-
fined below deckh. They were numerous
that this cooping up forced severe hard
ships. Moreover, the food served them
was utterly inadequate.
Survivors Are Better.
All the survivors were bitter i'll their
complaint of i'll treatment.
When the raider left home waters she
carried $50 sailors and four German of
ficers. She was well provisioned, 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 shius which sailed from Per
nambuco on January 10 and are now
believed also to have fallen victim to
! the raider, are the British steamer Ara
guaya and the French freighter Ad-
! miral LaTouche Treville. Both sailed
FOR Lisbon. Search is being made for
these two vessels and in addition Bri-
+ tish patrol ships are reported to be
\ l. ENa
| Dispatches from Rio Janeiro revealed
| that the japanese steamer Hudson Maru
which brought in survivors, was itself
q prize. 1t was officially stated that
the Hudson came in to Pefnambuco un-
der a German crew with the German
flag flying at her masthead. Her com
mander has not yet made it known
] whether he will intern with his prize
and crew or whether he will discharge
i passengers, take aboard supplies and
make dash for the open sea to do raid
| ing himself.
Brazil is Active.
I In the meanwhile the Brazilian gov
.ernment is preparing strictest suryeil-
i lance to prevent any violation of netl-
srality laws.
The survivors, landed at Pernambucc
1tby the Hudson included 1888 British and
Hindoos, So French and a. few addition
al of various nationalities.
Although all of them had been close.
l1y confined aboard their eaptor, they
identified her as German cruiser OF
the Vineta or Moewe type, but dis
guised SO her warlike character was not
revealed.
These survivors do not represent by q
great number the total Of those aboard
all the ships known to have fallen vic
tim to the German commerce destroyer.
The fate of several hundred others is
unknown. =
& From stories told by the survivors at
Pernambuco, the following. narrative OF
the German raiders operations may be
constructed:
Operations of Raider.
The German left Kiel a number of
weeks ago and swung directly south
westward, across the path Of trans AT.
lantic commerce. Gradually she work
ed her search. of the seas southwark
taking prizes right and left. Several
of these vessels the raider took along
with her. putting German prize crews or
.
below decks. Finally the st. Theodore
q British ship Of about 5000 tons, was
chosen by the commerce destroyer as the
fleet "prison ship" and on board OF
her will transfer all survivors. They
were poorly fed and confined SO closely
thaa there was great suffering. Every
: precaution was taken by the raider 's
captain that his prisoners should not
learn the story of his escape through
the Gordon Of allied battleships guard
ing Kiel, or of his future plans, and
that they should not, by any chance
warn other merchantmen which the
raider encountered of their fate.
Despite these precautions, some OF thC
, survivors managed to witness the Ger
man vessel 5 maneuvers when she cap
tured the French schooner Nantes anC
their story was fully confirmed by
Captain Days of that vessel
British Flag Displayed
According to their versions, the Ger
man slipped far ahead Of her convo,
of prizes and broke out the British fla!
| at her masthead. She rapidly over
hauled the slow sailing vessel and thel
+ signaed her to lay to. The Nantes obey
E ed-and the moment she came to a stol
the raider hoisted her true colors, bring
ing her guns to bear ON the Frenchman
A prize crew was sent over to talk
g charge Of the schooner. Some time later
however, the sailing vessel, being IN
: able to make the speed that the raide
and her prizes desired, the vessl wa
Z stripped of food and supplies, the orig
inal French crew and the German priz
Q crew taken off, and a hole dynamitei
!. in the vessel Is bottom.
1 The German didn t look anythin,
3 like warship,' said Captain Days
"and I had no hesitancy in obeying it
!. order to heave to. Besides, had NJ
Z chance to escape as the steamer coult
/ have easily overhauled me-
/, After the Nantes was captured an
A sunk, the survivors were distribute,
Z among the several prizes and finally al
e transferred to the st. Theodore. Then
9 ON January IL, the Hudson WAS over
hauled, seized and her Japanese crev
: confirmed, a German prize crew takinj
e their places. At this time the raide
Z evidently judged her depredations OF
f,Uontinued on page seven.)