GERMAN RAIDER AT WORK.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 18 January 1917, Page 5

GERMAN RAIDER AT WORK.

IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

LARGE NUMBER OF SHIPS SUNK

ARRIVAL OF SURVIVORS. Received 5.45. NEW YORK, .Tan. 17. Bnwnos Ayreg despatches from Pcrnambuco and Rio de Janeiro state that 287 survivors from five steamers sunk by a German raider, believed to be named the Vileta, thirty miles off Pernambuco, were taken aboard the Japanese steamer Hudson Maru. Survivors' statements vary. Some declare the raider has sunk or captured nineteen steamers and two schooners in the South Atlantic; others says seven ships were sunk and nine captured. One report says an unarmed British steamer was sunk without warning, and with a loss of four hundred lives, but the report is vague as to whether the four hundred includes the total losses of all the steamers sunk. The raider is described as armed with twelve cannon and four torpedo tubes, painted black. Some survivors were aboard her for twenty-eight days. The vessels mentioned as sunk or captured are: —Dramatist, Radnorshire, Voltaire, Sumara, Drina, Ortega, Hammershus, New Portland, Nouant Sempel, San Giorgio, Nesscr, King George, Van Ondalet, St. Hiodor, St. Sael, Michsnethiel, Snowdon Grange, Gailiy, Nantes, Asticres. Among the survivors are a number of Indians who contradict the first identification of the raider, and declare the name was undecipherable.