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Show uu RAIDER MOEWE SAFE IN GERMANY Ship Returns to Home Port After Sinking Many Enemy Vessels. Berlin, March 5. The German cruiser Moewe arrived today in a German port, according to an official announcement made here today. She had on board 190 prisoners and 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 marks in gold bars. The statement state-ment follows: "Tho naval general staff states that S. M. S. Moewe, commander Captain Burgrave Count von Dohnn-Scholdlen, after a successful cruise lasting several sev-eral months, arrived today at some home port with four British officers, twenty-nine British marines and sailors, sail-ors, 166 men of crews of enemy steamers, among them 103 Indians, as prisoners and '1,000,000 marks in gold bars "The vessel captured the following " ' " ' ' ' " -' "" - tnemy steamers, thegreater part ol which were sunk and a small part of which were sent as prizes to neutral portB. "Tho British steamers Corbridge, CG47 tons; Author, 3496 tons; Trader. 3608 tons; Adriadne, 3035 tons; Drom-onby, Drom-onby, -3627 tons; Farrlngford, 3146 torn;; Clan MacTavlsh, 5816 tons; Appam, 7781 tons; Westburn, 3300 tons; Horace, 3335 tons; Flamenco, 4629 tons; Saxon Prince, 3471 tons. "The British sailing vessel Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, 1473 tons. "The Fronch steamer Maroni, 3109 tons. "The Belgian steamer Luxembourg, 4322 tons. "At several points on enemy coast the Moewe also laid mines to which, among others, tbq battleship King Edward VII, fell victim." Honored by Kaiser. London, March 5. An Exchange Telegram dispatch from Amsterdam says tho Moewe reached Wllhelm-shaven Wllhelm-shaven yesterday. Count von Dohna, the Moewe's commander, com-mander, has been awarded tho Iron Cross of the flr3t class and the members mem-bers of the crew have received the Iron Cross of the second class. Count von Dohna has been ordered to meet Emperor William at headquarters. The Moewe's capture of two of the fifteen vessels listed by the German admiralty has not been reported pre-vlosly. pre-vlosly. They are the Saxon Prince and the Maroni, both of which were engaged in the trans-Atlantic service. The Moewe, previously made famous fa-mous by her exploits, has performed one of the most spectacular feats of the war on the seas by reaching a home port In safety, the great German naval port of Wllhelmshaven, on the North sea, which is patrolled with ceaseless vigilance by British warships. war-ships. It is through theso waters, which have been blocked off in districts dis-tricts for patrol by the different British Brit-ish units, that the Moewe must havo threaded her way to home and safety. At least part of the gold captured by the Moewe was taken from the Ap-pam Ap-pam which put in at Newport News several weeks ago under command of Lieutenant Berg, with a German prize crew. The Moewe first became famous when the Appam reached Newport News with a story which astonished the world. It was learned that the commerce raider had captured and sunk seven British vessels in tho main line of traffic between South Africa and Europe in addition to seizing seiz-ing the Appam, which had alsmost been given up for lost. The next heard of the German raider raid-er was on the arrival at Canary Islands Isl-ands late last month of the Westburn in charge of a German prize crew. It was then made known that the Moewe had sunk five more steamships off tho coast of Brazil. The Saxon Prince and Maroni probably prob-ably were captured by the Moewe on her waj- back to Germany as their sailing dates show they were both on the high seas toward the end of February. Feb-ruary. The identity of the Moewe has not been established here definitely. Prisoners Pris-oners from captured ships which were transferred to the Westburn said on their arrival at the Canary islands that the Moewe's guns were smaller than sevon Inches. According to one report she was formerly a tramp steamship. oo |