ATLANTIC RAIDER
PRLSONIER SECURES A PHOTO-
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(Rec. Feb. 19, 9.15 a.rn.) NEW YORK, Feb. 18.
One of the St. Theodore's sailors, who has arrived at New York, took a photograph of the German raider secretly. The photograph shows a long, low, typical one-funnelled two-masted freighPrisoners aboard the raider were allowed half a loaf of black bread daily. They had lard instead of butter, and bitter coffee in the morning; meat stew at noon and tea at night. One hour's exercise on deck daily was allowed. Otherwise they were herded in a single ill-ventilated' large room. Neutral sailors were allowed to make purchases from the raider's canteen, where tobacco, sweets, lemonade, beer, spirits and sausages were sold. The raider's mechanics*, transformed the St. Theodores with wireless and strengthened the forecastle poop for guns.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1917, Page 5
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