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Show SUBMARINE IBS Mill SUP Escorts Russian Prize From Arctic to German Port; Shells Made in U. S. i BERLIN, Dec. 30, by wireless to Say-! Say-! ville. Tbe Russian steamer Suchan, 1 captured by a German submarine re-; re-; cently in the Arctic ocean east of Cape i North, the northernmost point of Eu-i Eu-i rope, while bound from tho United States to Archangel with a valuable cargo of war material, has been brought into a German port, says an official announcement an-nouncement made today. The steamer, was formerly the Hamburg-American liner Spczia and had been confiscated 1 by tho Russians. The official statement follows: A German submarine a short time ago in tbe northern Arctic ocean east of Cape North captured the steamer Wuchau of the Russian volunteer fleet, rilled with war material ma-terial and bound for Archangel from the United States. The officers offi-cers of the Russian tJiip having been taken on board tbe submarine subma-rine as prisoners, and a German naval officer, with a noncommissioned noncommis-sioned staff, having taken command com-mand of the steamer, she was brought to a German port accompanied accom-panied by tlie submarine. There it was discovered that tho steamer was the Kpezia, which had belonged to the Hamburg-American line aud had been roufiscnted at the beginning of the war at Vladivostok Vladi-vostok by the Russians. The cargo, I which was worth many millions of : marks, was composed of 100,000 shrapnel of 7.5 centimeter type, ' i 75,i))0 blasting grenades of 7.5 cent i meter type. 150,000 cartridges car-tridges of ;i.7 centimeter type ; 250,000 fuses for grenades. 100,-000 100,-000 time fuses, 125,000 screws for fuses. 150,000 kilograms of trinitrotoluene, trini-trotoluene, 175,000 kilograms of 1 (Continued on Page Two.) SllBBIl IBS if 1T1 SHIP (Continued from Page One.) tube powder, 40,000 kilograms of black powder, 127 projectiles of 30 centimeter type, 150 cylinders of acid, 1,230,000 kilograms of lead in bars, seveu automobile trucks, 200 bales of sole leather, 500 spools of barbed wire and 6000 pieces of railroad rails. |