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Show ish .sailors taken from an unlden-lii'it-d uiei chiint ship sunk off th" Bermudas. e A World war precedent involv :ns; capture of a British shin by i German prize crew which brou'h it to the United States, led even ually to release of the prize bv tho i : n.tL'ct Stales siipiviiiu niii,. But for the moment at least th Nazis had lent new and siniff cant emphasis to their sea often" sivc which lias two main obiee" lives: ' L" 1. To convince neutral shin, that they are not safe In can vii P contraband to the Allied countrie, or in joining the cni,vvs , ranged by London with Biitjoh v. ar.-liip protection. 2. To break the backbone of the British naval power by sub marine and aerial attacks thm ending the blockade. That R0,n if achieved, probably would mean triumph for Germany in the Eii ropean war. So tar. the Britiy insist the German successes at sea have' been more spectacular than damagine-to damagine-to the Allies, but much nivste still surrounds the marine war and the Nazi? have claimed that Brit ain is suppressing the extent of casualties inflicted on the British navy and merchant marine Although the 5,400-ton cruiser Emden may be the only real sea raider at present, there had been persistent reports that the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Sehecr was roving the south Atlantic where the British steamer Clem-ent Clem-ent was shelled and that fast German merchant ships had been fitted out as raiders. itEi&t mm WARSHIPS 15y I'MTKI) I'KKSS Tiirro Gorman warships were reported rovinjr the Atlantic At-lantic today as Nazi sea raid-I raid-I ers, one of which captured Hie I Americai City of Flint and ! sent her to a Russian Arctic I port as a prize. The City of Flint, Norwepf- i;in nffirinhs pnid. wns cipliimd bv Uie Nnai cruispr Endcn, which put n jirizr- crrw nhonrd ant sent the freighter to Kola hay, north of Murmansk. The United States made inquiries inquir-ies in Germany and Soviet Russia as to the capture and Dip fate nf the American crew of 41 under Captain Joseph A. Gainnrd. In ' Moscow, the foreign office promised prom-ised American ambassador, Laurence Lau-rence A. Steinhardt, that he would be given all details as soon as possible. pos-sible. British Steamer Sunk In addition to the Emden, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported re-ported that the German pocket battleship Deutschland of 10.000 tons, was in the Atlantic and that ia had sunk the British steamer Stonegate, whose crew of 38 had been picked up by the City of Flint before the capture of the American ship. Other reports said the Stonegate was torpedoed by a U-boat. The Nazi pocket -battleship Admiral Ad-miral Scheer previously had been reported in the south Atlantic, where the British liner Clement was sunk. The story of sui'vivors that they had been attacked by the Admiral Scheer was never confirmed con-firmed officially, however. Except for announcement that the City of Flint, which rescued more than 200 survivors of the torpedoed tor-pedoed British liner Athenia, had been sent to Kola Bay not far from the reported place of refuge of the German liner Bremen there was little information about the capture. Put British Ashore The American freighter presumably presum-ably will be released because it was taken by the Germans to a neutral port after halting at Trom-soe, Trom-soe, Norway, to put ashore 37 Brit- |