THE MYSTERY OF THE APPAM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 5

THE MYSTERY OF THE APPAM

AND OTHER MISSING STEAMERS WAYLAID BY GERMAN SEA-RAIDER The High Commissioner reports:— The Elder, Dempster West African liner Amranr which* P i ,ln ' 324" tos *** " raider Moewe (the earlier messages referred to tVi* \ ei . man which subsequently attacked othfrvesselaswe n»r ßl * * ™ bma ™° > gers. lie Germans sent the liner, under the Germ™M t,,e ' r ??? SCU " i prize crew of twenty-two men, under Lieutenant Be°re P S ' . , , ® passengers oil board, according to one nf fliA iat include four injured persons, said to have hpo* til-ant News messages, bound for Australia. There were also r- a Dntish 1 shi P and it was supposed at first that the :c™cTh:d o [e^ r crpU^r;v r « i :" 1 1)0ardl

FURTHER DETAILS. ~ ByTelQ£T&pH Press Assoc!eliJoji—.uo pynly]i* The Appam was captured by the German Haider tfr 7 on January 15. She had 451 people on board, includes lis JL - Canaries, following ships sunk by the MoeweColbnd«-e Ariadne Dm™ £ ol \ - tno ton-Ford (PFarringford), Clan MaoTavish, and°irthur y ' Far"newounded sailors, said to be survivors from an Australian ™ are [°. u . r gave battle to the Germans. Australian meatcarner, which A Gorman submarine captured another vessel and used it to capture the Appam. ' a £uns aboard, The submarine sank an Australian meat shin takin<r ti,„ „ The Clan MaoTavish gave battle before she was sunk" <L Pagers. Fremantle to Loudon. • pro sne was sunk. She was bound from The Germans, secured the meat on board 1 before they sank her Ba „ef- OWinS are particulars of ' tte Tessels mentioned in the foregoing mes - Ariadne, 3035 tons. Ariadne S.S. Co., London H JeS"" 2 ' *'*' Co '' ly ' 38W E ' "* a '. Dromonby, 3627 tons. R. Ropner and Co., West Hartlenonl Farringford, 3146 tons. Harrogate S.S. Co., Sunderland ' The cargo on board the Clan MaoTavish included some nf „„ l- , are not at present available, shipped at Waitara and Wellington and the fn? lowing shipped at Australian ports.-Sydney-1800 bales of W7S casses of mutton and lamb, 26 barrels of tallow. Melbourne—7fi c leather. Adelaide—26sl bales of wool, 4246 bags of wheat fifll +„„„(« 25 bales of leather. The steamer left Wellington on OotoLr R /• f o "' and visited Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Fremantle and finallv / ll6 ' Fremantle on December 7 for London. ' » salled fr °"> The identity of the Moewe is not clear. There are three r„™„ , of that name in Lloyds' List, and tho largest of them is a vessel fi f S fitted with submarine and wirtless systems of communication tu 7? ' much smaller craft of 300 and' 152 tons respectively. But norm nf i r rs are are in the class of vessels listed as having over' 12 knots stnoori i.-i T? 8 Elder, Dempster 7781-ton liner Appam has a speed of 14 knote A PUZZLE FOR WASHINGTON THE STATUS OP THE APPAM. The State Department is puzzled about the status e bruary 1. Sbfj\t fa J Wb " t0 lltr ™ 4 " "" the reference of the whole question to tho German Prize Conrt k, r""' tions are-expected. ourt ' tfonipli-sa-SEA PIRATES IN AMERICAN WATERS. Tho British Ooijfin! |i"K wuineia British daum'r jwibjnarines in Amencaa waters, wwwai}

NAVAL ACTIVITY OFF NORWEGIAN COAST HUMOURED IMMINENT CLASH, The "Morgenblad" declares that extraordinary Britff'and'' activity is 111 evidence oft the Norwegian concf A nai,ll time. British warships and German submarines were observed ouS tcrritorj ™ tcrs : KeporU trom various parts of the Laeder coast state ttiatTmml land? CrU,66rS and - dostroyerß ,vel '° seeu S° in g southwards, close to S?e BRITISH SEA POWER WILL DETERMINE THE WAR , The editor of the "Deutsche* Journal," who was rtTn'■ F 'n'T* L the Kaiser's military advisors fully appreciate that th P lh-il; l, be the detcrminhiß factor of the war Hid 'mj|i?„ is ta 3 ,^ tlßh f, CB » p ?, Wer wlll could take Paris, and perhaps Petrocrad d'rh'l thnlt that would make no difference to Eimlind 'Ph Ital ' a "s 'nto the sea, bu* cupied the thinner became her lines, and the more™ would help' EngKf °°' AMERICA AND THE BLOCKADE ISSUE sent relations between the United States Ld ™ md ' the - p l e " The language of his speech at Pittsburg was not &f rfl t ® °S us,n S anxiety, how serious the President regards what hehokfc fk p1 nv - w ? ° ■n methods at sea. President Wilson will not '"'f eg ° justification for England carrying out a blwkade aS ply with international law: sSSeS wict,lln 0t f'f Germany simultaneously, tut if Germany to & l" g i ®"m have to face the blockade question. . ght terms Eugland will