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Show REACHES HOME POTOlFETf German Auxiliary Cruiser Reports Having Sunk 22 Steamers and Five Sailing Sail-ing Ships in Atlantic. BERLIN, March 22, by wireless to Sayville. The German auxiliary cruiser "Moewe has returned into a home port of the navy from a second cruise in the- Atlantic ocean, it was announced today by the Gorman admiralty. Th6 Moewe, according to the statement, state-ment, captured twenty -two steamships and five sailing ships, aggregating 123,-100 123,-100 tons gross. The statement follows: "The German auxiliary cruiser Moewe has returned into a homo port of the navy from a second cruise of the Atlantic At-lantic ocean, where she prayed for several sev-eral months under command of Bur-grave Bur-grave and Count von Dohna-Sfhlodien. "The ship captured twenty-two steamers and five sailing vessels, with a gToss tonnage of 123,100. They included in-cluded twenty-one hostile steamers, of which eight were armed and five in the service of the British admiralty, as well as four hostile sailing ships. "Among the vessels captured by the Moewe were the Voltaire, an English steamer of 8617 tons gross in ballast, carrying a 12-centimetre gun; the Norwegian Nor-wegian 6teamer Hallhjcrg of 2537 tons gross, and the Mount Temple." The foregoing official statement issued is-sued by the German admiralty announcing announc-ing the return of the German auxiliary cruiser Moewe from a second raid on merchant ships of entente and neutral countries is the first definite declaration as to the identity of the vessel which sank eight British and two French merchant mer-chant vessels and captured two other steamships in the southern Atlantic last January. |