APPAM CAPTOR'S IDENTITY

Waikato Times, Volume 86, Issue 13103, 10 February 1916, Page 5

APPAM CAPTOR'S IDENTITY

STILL SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. THEORIES ADVANCED. LONDON, February 9. Discussing the identity of the Appam's captor, experts dismiss the submarine cruiser theory, pointing out that the Appaill's sailors would have certainly noticed the marks inseparable from submersibles. A well-informed writer states positively that the raider escaped from a South American port, where German money and influence were strong. The most acceptable theory is that the raider was one of the cruiser Konigsberg's supply ships, and was hidden in a river after the cruiser was destroyed. This theory, fits in with Lieut. Berg's statement that he had been five months at sea. Many of the raider's men had the name "Moewe" on their caps and ribbons, indicating that the crew, of the ?,ur :o? ship sunk

at Dar-es-Salaam early in the war managed to join the raider. The Konigsberg was the German cruiser which shelled and wrecked the Pegasus while she was lying off Zanzibar with her fires out for boiler cleaning. The Konigsberg afterwards took shelter in the estuary of the river Ri fugi, in German East Africa, where she was searched out and ultimately destroyed by British cruisers. PRISONERS ON THE MOEWE. PASSENGERS AND CREW OF THE CLAN McTAYISH. Received February 9, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, February 9. Lieut. Berg states that with the exception of fifteen Lascars who were killed and fojir wounded, all the passengers and crew of the Clan MacTavish were taken as prisoners aboard' the Moewe.