OCEAN RAIDERS.

Evening Star, Issue 15777, 14 April 1915, Page 3

OCEAN RAIDERS.

OFFICERS TELL OF THEIR DEEDS. “BRITAIN NOT WELL ORGANISED.” NEW YORK. April 15. The officers of the Kronprinz Wilhelm stale that they were obliged to steal past four allied cruisers off Virginia Cape in order to reach port. The commander had declared that he would return the same way as he left. Since the Kronprinz Wilhelm sailed from New York in August as a passenger steamer she had never touched land. During her raids on British shipping she took 950 prisoners, most of whom were sent to South African ports by German vessels which met tho raider. Sho has 61 prisoners aboard, who were taken from the British steamers Tamar and Coleby. Her record of destruction was made with four guns. Lieutenant Wn rner, one of the officers, said that if Britain had been well organised the Kronprinz Wilhelm never could have remained alive. They took two of their guns from the steamer La. Correutina, and secured 20,000 tons of coal from enemy ships. Their tailors made uniforms from cloth captured iu the French steamer Guadaloy. They also got slices, leather, and thousands of dollars' worth of goods intended for the French army. The raider narrowly escaped capture twice by British warships—at the Canaries and at the Azores.