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MORE ABOUT THE MOEWE

BEHAVIOUR OF THE RAIDERS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. February 28, 8.30 p.m.) Teneriffe, February 28. The Westburn left the Moewe on February 9. The prisoners were given tlio choice of landing at tlio Canary Islands or an unknown island, and they chose the former. The prisoners were constantly threatened with bombs, with which the prize crew was armed. The German captain expressed the intention of retaining ■ one captain, engineer, and steward to guaid against damage to machinery, and the poisoning of stores. \ Tlio captain and gunners of the Clan Mactavisn were detained aboard the Moewe because they worked the liner's guns, and tliey also kept the 'Lascar crew. The captain and second officer of the Westburn were also kept on the Jloewo for making false nationality signals before capture. While the Westburn was lying at Teneritfc the prisoners saw boats plying from other interned German vessels, and it is supposed they removed the Appam's gold, the prize crew's munitions, and stores.. A tug and launch accompanied the" Westbum seaward, and later anchored three-quarters of a mile off the shore, and was' sunk in forty-live minutes. Tlio crew was taken off in the launch, and informed the authorities that the Westburn accidentally BRult, owing to the bursting of a tioilei 1 through tha wmtiuuous use of - silt watef<

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2707, 29 February 1916, Page 5

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MORE ABOUT THE MOEWE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2707, 29 February 1916, Page 5

MORE ABOUT THE MOEWE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2707, 29 February 1916, Page 5

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