German Raiders. Disguising raiders is a favourite sport of the Germans, states the American magazine Time. Captain Cornelius Arundelc, master of the freighter Haxby, Avhich was sunk oil Bermuda by a German raider last year described their tactics. During the, (54 days spent aboard the enemy vessel, he saw her fly the Greek. Brazilian and Dutch Hags. With a tonnage exceeding 10,000 the raider possessed a telescopic funnel and an amount of light steel plates, which she shifted like scenery to change her silhouette from day to day. The superstructure war repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, the ship leftHamburg on April G last year. She refuelled from her victims and the Nazi tanker Winnetou which she met of! Africa.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 292, 7 April 1941, Page 6
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