RAIDER ABROAD

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3146, 20 January 1917, Page 2

RAIDER ABROAD

THE YARROWDALE IS SAFE.

ARRIVES WITH THE CREWS OF , EIGHT VICTIMS.

BY FLEOTBIO TELEGBAFH —OOPTBMHT.J

IKB PBZU ASSOCIATION. 1

(Received January 20, 8.45 a.m.) Rio de Janeiro, January 19.

According to reliable information, the s.s. Yarrowdale, which was captured by the South Atlantic raider and sent off with some 400 folks from tho captured ships, has arrived at Sao Ricenti, in the Cape Verde islands. She has on board the crews of eight j ships sunk by the German raider.

THE GENTLE HUN.

HOW HE TREATS HIS CAPTURES.

New York, January 19. A despatch from Buenos Aires states that the log of the Radnorshire shows that the German raider gave her crew eight minutes to leave the vessel. The boarding party was accompanied by a cinema operator, who took pictures of the men leaving the ship. The raider* captain told the Radnorshire's captain that he had been ordered to spare all passengers and vessels that were not carrying big cargoes. The Radnorshire's men were kept in an iliventilated compartment, cramped and stuffy, with some Hindus for companfor five days. Then they were transferred to the Hudson Maru, which was sent to Fernambuco with scarcely enough water and sea biscuits to complete th voyage.

(Received January 20, 10 a.m.) New York, January 19. The New York Times correspondent at Washington learns that there is more than one raider in the South Atlantic. Cruisers of the fleets of the Allies are scouring the ocean, forming a cordon round the ocean.

Reports from Rio de Janeiro differ. Some believe that the raider is the Moewo again and others say that she is a heavily-armed yacht. Several victims sent out the "5.0.8." signal, but the raider's speed enabled her to overtake them.

The American Consul at Pernambuco reports that no American ship has been sunk.

THEY WERE AWARE OF IT.' .-■

(Received January 20, 11.15 a.m.) New York* January 19.

It is asserted that German agents placed, men on board ships leaving Now York, with instructions to jamb the wireless plant when the raider appeared.

The British Consulate here has known that a raider was operating snce early in December,, and 6ent wireless warnings regularly to ships at sea. ■