ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 19 January 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE GERMAN RAIDER. FEARS FOR SAFETY OF OTHER STEAMERS. JAPANESE OFFICERS SHOT. Received 9.5. NEW YORK, Jan 18. Despatches from B'uenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro rear that the British steamer Paraguay, and the French steamer Admiral Latouche Trevilk, which left Pernambuco in January, and were captured by the raider, which, it is reported, left Kiel under the Danish hag, ballasted with iron, with HoO of a crew and four officers. The greatest precautions were taken t.iat the prisoners should not learn my secrets, and were confined below JtsoKS. They endured severe hardships, and had little food. llie identity of tae raider is undisclosed, but the survivors say she is either the Vineta or of the Moewe type. It is reported that several Japanese officers aboard the Hudson Maru were shot for resisting. The Hudson Maru was captured on January 12. Crews from other ships were put on board, with a German prize crew, which tool: it to Pernambuco, flying the German flag.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. BRAZIL AND ARGENTINE INVESTIGATING. Received 9.25. NEiW YORK, Jan IS. One hundred and seventy British and Hindus, 54 French. 13 Americans, and some other nationalities were landed at Pernambuco. One hundred captured Lascars are retained aboard the raider as stokers, releasing the Germans for prize crews. Four hundred and forty-one of the captured crews are aboard the Yarrow-dale, the whereabouts of which is a mystery. Some report her to have foundered, others expect her arrival shortly. The Brazilian and Argentine Governments are investigating the rumour of a secret German base at an uninhabited coastal port. Captain Days, of the French schooner Nantes, says the raider flew the British flag and ordered him to stop, and then showed the German flag and threatened to sink him. The Germans boarded the ship, removed the crew, and looted the ship, which was sunk with dynamite.