ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

A GERMAN RAIDER. AT ,WOR:\ IN niE SOUTH : ATLANTIC. LONG US'i of victim.?. • New York, Jan. li. Buenos Ayres dispatches from Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro state th;'! 237 survivors from live steamers sunk by a German raider, believed to l.c named Vileta, are thirty miles of! lVrnambiico on board tiic Japanese steamer Hudson Mnp.i. The survivors' statements varv Some declare that the raider sunk 'or captured nineteen steamers and two schooners in the South Atlantic, others say that, seven ships were sunk and nine captured. One report says an unarmed British steamer was sunk without warning ami witn the 10-s of 400 lives, but the report is vague as to whether the 400 includes the total losses of all the steamers sunk. Tlie raiilc-r i? described as armed with twelve cannon and four torpedo tubes. She is painted black. Some of the survivoivwere on hoard her for 2S days. The vessels mentioned as sunk or captured are:—The Dramatist, Radnorshire, Volla, Ire, Sumara, Drina, Ortega. Hammcrsus. New Portland, Nouant, Sempel, San Giorgio, Nesser, King George, Vanondalet, St. JliDdor, >St, Sael, iVfiehsnethiel, Snowdon Grange. Gaily, Nantes and Astieres. Among the survivors are -j number of Indians, who contradict the first identification ot the raider and declare that her name was indecipherable RAIDER REPORTED DISPOSED OF. INSURANCE RATES ADVANCED. Received Jan. 18, 7.3u y.io. 1 New York, Jan. ia. As the result of tlie raiders' ravages in the Sputh Atlantic, marine insurance rates have advanced from 2y» to 10 per cent. There are persistent rumors that thij raider luis beeu either sunk or captured. THE RAIDER'S VICTIMS. Received Jan. 18, iO p.m. London, Jan. 18. According to Lloyds' Pernambueo agent the Hudson Maru reports that the Yarrowdale carried 443 of the crews of the Georgic, Mount Temple, Voltaire, Mid King George, '£ he raider also sunk the Norwegian vessels City of Tampicu I and Hansa, "I A CONFIRMATORY REPORT, Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. London, Ji.n 17. Admiralty information from Pernambueo confirm/ th L assumption that the following ships have beei, sunk by the Merman raiders: —British: Dramatist, Radnorshire, Nincih, Netherby Hall, Mount- Temple King George, Voltaire] and Georgic. French: Nantes and Anires. All were sunk between December 12 and January 12. It is also announced tliat the St. Theodore was captured, md a. prize crew put aboard. The Yarrowdale was also captured, and sent aw.ty with 400 men from sunken vessels. There is no furthelir news of their whereabouts [We are indebted to Mr. F. 'P. Corkill for the following information relating to the vessels named:;— Dramatist, 3404 tons net; T. and J. Harrison, Liverpool. Radnorshire, 2CS!) tons net, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., London. Volta (piyffbably Voltaire,'ss4s tons, Lamport and Holt, Liverpool; oi Voltaire, 1028 tons, French barque). Ire (probably Iran, 40GG tons, T. and J, Brocklebank, Liverpool). Sumara (? Swedish steamer Sumatra, 3-271 tons). Drina, 7288' tons, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., London. Ortega, 4510 tons, Pacific Steam Navigation Co., Liverpool. Hammershus, 2520 tons (Danish), C. K. Hansen. San Giorgio, 3705 tons (Italian), Peirce Bros., Naples. Kcsser (possibly Nestor, 9401 tons, Alfred Holt, Liverpool). King George, 2480 tons, Phillips, .Phillips and Co., Ltd.. London. St. Hiodor (? St. Theodore, 3175 tons; Rankin, Gilmour and Co., Liverpool). Snowdon Grange (Snowdon Range), 290!) tons, Furncss, Withy and Co., West Hartlepool. Nantes, French barque, 2203 tons. Astieres (? Asnieres, French barque, 2715 tons).' . Brookwood. IAS 7 tons, Constantino and. Pickering Co., Middlesborough. j Martin, 1207 tons, Sir R. Ropner and Co., West IT rtlcpool. The following are not identifiable: New Portland, Vouant, Sempel, Vanon- : dalet, St. Sael, Michsnethiel, Gailey Impossibly Gallia cr Gallier), Nonva {probably 3\ T orwegian barque Norma.)] TO STARVE ENGLAND AGITATION FOR SUBMARINE WARFARE. Rotterdam, Jan. 17. The l'an-Gcrman agitation for the increase ./of submarine warfare is daily more vigorous in the Reichstag. Deputy Roescki, addressing Sehleswig agriculturists, said: "God ha° so ordered the world's harvests that England may hi: unable to feed herself. We must grasp the hand the Almighty lias outsiretclied to help ua, for'if we allow England to find salvation iri 1 the unhindered arrival of wheat ships another opportunity will not be otTered." THE DEUTSCHLAND AND BREMEN. Copenhagen, Jan. 17. German newspapers deny tlie British and American reports of the loss of the Deutschland and Bremen. They state that the Deutschland on Tuesday left for New. York, and that the Bremen has j becr. stationed in the Gulf of Bothnia and in the Mediterranean as a mothership to submarine squadrons. JAPANESE MERCHANTMEN . ARMING. Tokib, Jail. 11. I Japan is . arming her merchantmen [ eugaged in ike European trade.