Show GERMAN RAIDER SCOURS THE I SEH SEA FIFTEEN VESSELS SUNK BY BV RAIDER AND TWO STEAMERS HELD AS PRIZES steamers long overdue and loaded with arms ammunition and horses believed to have B been een sent to the bottom new york 0 according to advices advises from rio janeiro a german commerce raider has been working havoc in the atlantic ocean on entente allied shipping between the azores islands and the south american Americ aft coast during the period from december 12 to january 10 1 0 at least thirteen vessels ten british steamers a japanese steamer and two french sailing craft were captured by the raider and it Is presumed that most of them were sunk the british admiralty assumes that eight of the british steamers and the two french sailing ships all of them long overdue and some isome of them known to have been loaded with arms am ammunition horses and other ward supplies for the entente allies have been sunk by the raider the japanese steamer was released by tile the raider off the coast of f brazil and permitted to land at pernambuco fernambuco men of crews of vessels destroyed one of the british steamers Is said to have ben sent away by the raider with additional nen to be landed the whereabouts of oi the raider Is not known the first official statements given out at rio janeiro regarding the raider were to the effect that seven ves sels had been sunk anil and nine captured |