THE PIRATE RAIDER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 5

THE PIRATE RAIDER

AT WOEK IN THE WEST ' INDIES . , (Rec. April 2) 1.30 a.m.) Rio tie Janeiro, March 31. The FroncJi steamer Oambronne has arrived here witn two hundred men, . comprising: the crews of eleven Allied . vessels wnich were sunk by, a . lonian . ■ raide* ill the vicinity of Xnnidaoi. They, say that many on board the destroyed ; vessels perished.: The refugee's are mostly Italian, French,. aiict English. ■* The raider is'described as a sailor. Sho is equipped witli two gasoline motors, and flies the Norwegian, flag. She pietends . 6 lie wishes to speak to her intended . victim. ; and.. wii©n . : the latter stops she. 'hnists v the German flag and opefls a eonianuous tim until tho .surrenders., ■when she removes the crew andfSiJiks the ship. ; ■ . The raider is named the; Secalder, and her commander is Count Aknor. . She has sixty-four of fc crew, and IB armed with two guns, sixteen machineguns, and equipped with, eighteen months' supplies of munitions, oil, and other things. She is supposed to have left Germany on- December 22; I submar-, ines escorting her to Iceland. She - sank tho British steamers Glaysroyre (3268 tons), Lady Island (400? tons), Nongoth (5500 tons), the sailer Kn- •. mars, the smiill Canadian trader £ercs, the French vessels Antonina - (4000 '■ tons), Barochefoucauld (2220_ tons), Charles Gounod (2199 ions), .Duplex (2206 tons), 'all ,westward,;6f Madeira, between January . 3 and March 6.—; Router.