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Show German sea terror duplicat-ing duplicat-ing destruction wrought by the moewe. mploys Norwegian Flag When Approaching Ap-proaching Victims in South American Amer-ican Waters, According to Stories of Survivors. Rio De Janeiro. A new German raider, slipping past the British war-chips war-chips on guard in the North sea, has reached the south Atlantic and sent eleven merchantmen to the bottom. According to survivors from the sunken vessels, the raider is the See-iadler See-iadler (Sea Eagle), a formidably arm-fed arm-fed craft operating with the same success suc-cess and daring as its predecessor, the Moewe, which recently returned to a German port after playing havoc with Shipping in these waters. News of the activities of the raider .was brought to Rio de Janeiro by the Ijfrench bark Cambronne, which arrived ar-rived here March 31. She had on board 263 men from the crews ofves-els ofves-els sunk by the Seeadler. There were twenty-two men in the crew of the Cambronne, bringing up the total of persons who reached Rio Janeiro to 285. The Cambronne encountered the raider on March 7 at latitude 21 Seouth, longitude 7 west, a point in the Atlantic almost on a line with Rio de Janeiro and about two-thirds of the way to the African coast After the survivors had been put on the Cambronne, she was ordered to proceed pro-ceed to the coast of Brazil, a voyage Of twenty-two days. ' According to the Journal de Brazil, the raider was loaded with mines, which explains the destruction of vessels ves-sels off the coast of Brazil. The commerce destroyer is reported to be armed with two guns of 105 millimeters mil-limeters and sixteen machine guns. The vessel has three masts and is equipped with wireless. Its crew con-; con-; eists of sixty-four men under the com- xnand of Count TJkner. According to the refugees, the raider raid-er left Germany on December 22, escorted es-corted by a submarine. They say that the commander declared that the Ger- man emperor and the crown prince alone knew of the expedition. |