Show I I II Raider Specially Armed to Sink Merchantmen fI Py By l Pros Press to o Tt NEW V YORK Feb Feh 28 The Tho Tho German raider which sank so man many vessels yes ves sels seis in the tho Houth south Atlantic In January wa was so 80 skillfully sId II Cull armed and so 50 well manned as to Indicate ato sho wa was especially espo- espo daIly prepared in a German man port for tor or her mission of d destroying merchantmen merchant chant men according to Capt T. T of the Japanese steamer r Hu Hudson son Marti Maru which arrived today from Pernambuco Brazil The Tile Hudson Maru Iaru was one ona atthe of at the tile vessels captured Made prisoner January C Ii on a voyage a. from Crom Bombay Bomba to New York Captain saw t Our four ur ships sunk stink after i their crows crews had been removed On I January 12 nearly 40 officers and men I were placed on tho the Hudson Maru Iaru I which was ordered Into Pernambuco where she Jie arrived on January Januar 16 Themen The Themen Themen men were vero from tho the St. St Theodore Nantes Dramatist As- As and Netherby Hall all nIl ent entente craft Captain summoned on onboard onboard onboard board the raider before being released said the guard Juard was so strict that not one of ot tho the prisoners learned tho the raider raiders raider's raid raid- er ors ers Identity Tho The Japanese skipper observed that the tho two bl big guns and tho the two torpedo tubes tubeR had been put IB I. a place with an efficiency which convinced him that the ship while a a. converted c cargo vessel must have o been equipped In a German port where guns material and marines were plentiful The raider was a ton boat he said aid ald with a peed speed o of eighteen knots |