Show CRUISER DISGUISED AS FLOATING ISLAND I NEW YORK July 8 Bringing what what wha is practically the first detailed news o ot of the fight 1 In East Africa Charles Charle Cotter of Ames Okla who had spen spent four years at Nairobi British East Bas Africa has returned to the United i States 1 Cotter said when hostilities began I there were 1500 British Europeans as against German Europeans The Germans equipped na na- na- na lives he said and taught them to use arrows dipped in poison polson a drop o of which In an open wound means death The Tho British armed natives besides whom there were on the BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish side a regiment of Royal Fusiliers fully equipped by William Wllliam Northrup MacMillan a ranch owner In one battle out of ot 1100 of these soldiers were killed Nevertheless the British won Three regiments of East Indians were sent back to India They Vere were too cowardly to go into the brush it in which all the fighting in that part o othe ot of the world is done Cotter said that the cruiser Koenigsberg Koenigsberg Koenigs- Koenigs berg which had sunk the Pegasus of ot off the coast of Zanzibar was sunk while going up one of or the big African rivers disguised as a floating island She had palm trees on her deck anc and other large plants of the torrid zone he said and if it had not been for forthe forthe forthe the British aeroplanes she probably would have got by In that disguise As it was sh she was assailed both from fron land and from the aeroplanes a ac ar quickly destroyed Cotters Cotter's son eon Wayne Cotter is a with a troop of Americans in the East African camp My son is in charge of 1500 American Ameri Amen can motor trucks out there Cotter said Another passenger aboard the San Guglielmo was Alfonso duke of San Giorgio professor protessor of Italian He traveled In the service of the Italian Halla government I visited England France and Italy he said In all those countries I found the spirits of the people very much brighter than they had been a year ago England is optimistic In Italy you wouldn't think there was any war on at all Pablo Fablo a wireless operator said that he heard a code conversation between two submarines in the Medi Medi- He could not of course make out what it was all about Among the passengers also was Johann Johann Johann Jo- Jo hann Blom captain of the masted four-masted American schooner Marguerite He was returning after having delivered a schooner to a Greek purchaser When we got to Naples on our way to the other side Captain Blom said I r had the American flag painted out on the side of the ship and a a. Greek flag painted on instead But before we left Naples I learned that the allies had announced that they would n not t grant safe conduct to Greek ships Accordingly Accordingly Ac Ac- Accordingly cordingly I had the Greek flag painted out and the American flag restored to the side of the ship |