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Show BRITISH ACCUSED OF CAUSING THE EVELYN DISASTER BERLIN, Feb. 22. by wireless to Pay-v'He. Pay-v'He. L. I. According to advices received here. Captain Smith of the America n stermier Evelyn luis inforiied the German authorities that his ship came to crif-f thrnuch the a lvi-e of a British naval boadin? officer, w ho instructed him to follow the course on which he struck tlie mines instead of the northerly coursn as la oi down in the German instructions. The disaster occurred , at 4 o'clock Friday rnorninp and the F.velyn sank peven hours later. Captain Smith, a Dutch pil'U and thirteen men . drifted In a rowboat until Saturday afternoon, when they were rescued res-cued by a German patrol boat. A Spanish stoker In the rowboat died meanwhile from exposure. The other men in the boat ate all recovering. -They are now at 'tlie Sailors' h'-me in Bremenhaven. Tlie mate and the remainder of the Kvehns crew are understood to have landed in Holland. |