AN AUXILIARY SAILING SHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14288, 3 May 1917, Page 9

AN AUXILIARY SAILING SHIP.

FLEW NORWEGIAN FLAfr

R^DE JANEIRO, March' 31. ■■ I . Two. .hj^ndre^,. 'and, ;sixty -five.. men 'two. \v'Qmen,' : sjirviypi's of.- eleyeh steamships and sailing vessels; sunk in the At-. ..antic, were brought. into, j port to.-day witli another amazing -German- raider . story. They airived on the French [ barqu© Cambronne- The liew German ' raider, according, to (( tl^e;r, storijos, is a. sailing vessel, -.wiltlij ..auxiliary .. .-'. gasoline ; engines. Snei.'ni^, {the Norwegiaui . flag ' and is heavily", armed. The survivqrs claimed many-*.-,pf • those on aboard the eleven ships- , destroyed by the latest German sea roy^r..lifl Id.1 d. been drowned or lost in the sipJ^pg, #f,- j^ljo '-, vessels. ' ...TJie new .(^evman y4jde&>, bears the haique. "See r Adler" (Sea ; .Jijagle).. -Her comiri.andefy:. is ' (^un^-.liupkueiVi, <She left Germany ; op.. Deceij^Jbeß _}2, • Most of her vict^s w^re d^^r^uled^apd sunk in the vicinity of Tttipjjad, according td the aiu-ivors. '^THe present whereabouts of the Vl 3ee Adler; Js. unknown. >. ' ij ' . THE RAIDER'S r VICTIMS. v^ I The'r^der's victiiniff'as listed by tho Survivors , were :~- , \, I Antonin, 'French vessel, '2JO7J. tons, owned in- Dunk)rk/.;SI men on board; sunk Jan,; :. 28. a J :'British >Yeonian, British, s^ijiirt'g vessel, 1953 tons, owned in 8.C., : 1 -21 men; sunk Feb. 26. , ' M .Buenos Ayres, Italian sailing vessel, 1811 tons, q\yijed in Naples, 21 men.. • Charles Gqunp'd, (French sailinsr vessel, 2169 ion's, /owned ifl v Naiites, 24 men; sunk Jan. -21. " .. * -, 1 Dupleix, French sailing Vessel, 2206, tons, owned in Nantes ; 22 men; suuk , March 5. ... •' -. -„, ' .'Gladys Rbyalc,./Brit;sli^ste!iioeit, 3268 tons,, pwne/1 in Suiiqerlaiid, 26 men.; sunk off. Madeira Jan. 3. t • Hoiigarth, British, 3£09 tons gross, , o^vned in.'QirdiJf.. .; , „. < .Lady Inland ''(or Laridy Island), 4500 toifs, 25, men (not I'stfed). ! A La Rochefoucauld, French, sailing yes?el ? .2200; tons, owned in Nantes, 24 men; sunk Feb. 27. , -V I ...,'Eercie,. British schooner, 3b4 toys, I ow'peoVi'in Halifax, 6 men, 1 woman;, . sunk ; ,Jan.. 28.,- „ ' . Pinniove, Britjsh sailing vessel, 2431 ;tons, owned in' o reenock, 29 men ; sunk Feb. 19'. '. i r „..-■ ... ' Tliere were tvy,ei}ty-t.\vo men in the .cre\^ :,'„»£ ijbie ', Cfombronne, bringing «P; the, total, of persons, who reached Riojj Jappii'ojto 28$.' ]• ,On March; 11, survivors told of the raider overhauling the sajiling vessel: Hongartli. The ,<H'ongarth refused! or-j Aiders: to lay te, and inunediately opened, .fire , on.-, her pursuer- One man aboard' the, raider wa* ,- killed 'arid - four werewounded by her shells. It required; twenty-one .cannon, sliojjs fired irom a distanoe of two and a-half miles to sink; the Hongartli. '•■''.•■■ I A SAltlNfc VESSELThose aboard the Gaipbronne de | 1 scribed the new frerman raider as a< triple.mas.ted sailing vessel with an auxiliary 'engine equipment of quadruple '' cylinder gasoline motors. She was armed with, two 105-millimetvc puns and sixteen nftchinc guns and left German^ December /22a i

Members of the German crew told survivors that they Avere escorted by 'German submarines to Iceland and that they had an eighteen months' supply .of oil, munitions and supplies aboard. In almost -every case the See Adlcr adopted the stratagem of flying the Norwegian, flag and signalling to her unsuspecting victims that she desired to speak to them. When the • .unsuspecting victim ,hove to and the See Adler came -.within pevf.ect -range, the raider's crew broke out tho German ensign .i.iul' opened fire. As soon as the overhauled A'essel surrendered the Qcrmans methodically sent crews aboard, took off the survivors, imprisoned them, and then sank their mvize. ' .AUDACIOIJS PLAN. . The .\r,cry audacity ,of , the raiding plan.followed , by the Sec Adler wrs responsible for/ hev great • success in. prey- • ing on, commerce. Instead of being a rfasfc..cruiser, like the Mocwc and the Emden, the See Adler, according to survivors, Avas a cumbersome looking A'essel, innocent appearing in her big spread of sails a.nd A'ery sloav speed.... J Those aboard ..the Cambronne,. said the See Adler's crew told them tliat j after leaving Iceland the raider bore due 'southward..; . ,The. 'first sinking of Avhich, .^he survjvov^ had rny knoAv-' ledge Was off, the Madeira Islands on January 3. Then, judging from succes-. iye -siiitciifgaj.. she turned. .her - nose south-west across the Atlantic,.. Her most recent sinkings were reported off Trinidad. * At about the time' thc Sep Adle^' wag someAvhei-o aroun'd. Madeira'.'and the Caharyj, "Inlands, something mysterious happened to oi)e of the cable'.. l iines -from England via^ the Canary Islands/ to South .-America;.-'lt avo« considered possible) ,hei:e.,that the raider pulled up this line and'cut it. DELAYED. THE CAMBRONNE. The thoroughness Avith. Avhich the Germans carried on . thejr.. .work .of destruction js. by , their treatment of,.the, Camprpnne. .Onj deciding to send this vessel, to Brazil Avith their j prisoners, thpy cut away > paijt of her masts and^destroyed some of her sails, Avith the idqa. of.delayiiig.hdif -progress to Brazil.and keeping secret as long as possible the presence of the raidesin the South Atlantic. . All. papers on the Cambronne Avere seized {ind a large paH of her cargo was destroyed. " . The surveyors (who have reached here can give no definite account of the movements of t the See Adler, although they say that most of the vessels Avere sunk off the Brazilian coast.