FIRST PRIZE OF WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 9

FIRST PRIZE OF WAR.

STKAMEft J iIELBOUHNE.

li is ctiumod that tie stwunw Pollardws, which arrlwd In. Mwbomrt® a »*r days ago, after an eventful Yoyago from' London Vifc Colombo and Fiemvtt!*, waa lhiß first G*tman «K»rch«.nttti»n *aptui»d on this high- seas, by the British natal fort*#. 'She iV also th«: fiist «f U» fteet ef vMtel*: WMeially wltotood' for the transport of foodtttiita to reach; Mel"bourn*. ~ , , . ; ~li Shortlr aifter tho declaration, of wafc; the Pollarden, known' a* tha Emir, flying the German flag, allpjwd out, of ' a Metiiterranenn fibrt in a «Mb tor Gehnany» , OffCadis, w Spain, «ih« wa* aightod aiid't fited on by British crttisete. and aftftr, afL oxoiting chflie hove to. Her G*ttn»n crew VWMe' tnnirfmeA to the - w*#Aj(» and; la6d*d aa. prisoners nt Gibraltar, wuta tho Britiahipriw» crew the VMael ihto that port., Ro* named the Pollarden, *he hUM aitato beeft amployed on a variety of commiaaWnß in teany; parte of th« world, And has aul aonw- *roit.mg adv«uturts diitift? tlje aUbtflarina, campaigst.