DRESDEN'S LAST PORT OF CALL.
CAPTAIN ORDERS MAGAZINE TO BE EXPLODED. SUNK THE SHIP TO KEEP HER FROM BRITAIN'S HANDS (Times and Syisiej Sun Services.) LOXDOX, March 18. A report from Valparaiso says that the Dresden put in at the Juan Fernandez islands and requested permission to remain a week in order to make repairs. The authorities compelled her to depart because she was undamaged. As a result of the Dresden's capture, the grain rates from the west coast of North America have dropped. The Peruvian barque Lonton has arrived at Valparaiso with the crew of the 20-year-old British barque Conway Castle, 1.694 tons." which was the last vessel sunk by the Dresden. She was sunk on February 27. Wounded Germans assert that the captain of the Dresden ordered the magazine to be blown up. thus accounting for the explosion which caused the sinking of the vessel.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 5
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