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Show f SPDMIrBT I GERMAN RAIDER fil'r Berlin, March 23, by wireless to XI Sayvllle. Interesting details of somej s'ltt 1Jm, of the exploits of the German com-" merce raider Moewe have been given by her commander, Captain Burgrave Count von Dohana-Schlodien. The day after the capture of tho Ap-pam Ap-pam by the Moewe, says the Overseas News agency's summary of the count'3 reminlsconces, the steamer Clan Mac-Tavlsh Mac-Tavlsh was sighted at 4:30 o'clock In the morning. The MacTavIsh belli-fast, belli-fast, it was only after a long chase J that the Moewe was able to get near' her. Then ensued a wireless conversation, conversa-tion, tho iSIoewe asking, "What ship are you?" Tho MacTavIsh, being somewhat mistrustful, answered: "Who aro you?" The Moewe replied: "A German cruiser: stop Immediately." "The MacTavIsh declared by wireless, wire-less, 'I have stopped,' but she contlnu-. ed at full speed.y said tho Moewe's" commander, in recounting the incident, inci-dent, "The first shell wc sent exploded explod-ed on the bridge. The firing went on until after the MacTavIsh had been hit several times, and she wired, 'We havo really stopped.'" A month later, during one night, a ship was sighted -whoso nationality It was im possible to learn.-. Her most clover captain, when I askod him who I lshe was, gnve mo a name which was" not to bo found In any of the shipping registers. I asked again, upon which he gave another name. The captain afterward told me that in his confusion confu-sion he roally had forgotton tho name he gave first, "It -was a matter of utter indifference indiffer-ence under which namo the ship was sunk, but it was pitiful that we should I have to sink a steamer with 100Q hot-. ties of champagne on board, aa wo had no more of the stuff ourselves. "Off Madeira the Appain was sighted. sight-ed. I signaled her to stop. As tho captain did not obey, I fired a single warning shot, upon which the steamer come to a halt. "Whou wo stoamedrovor to the Ap-pam Ap-pam wo noticed sailors of tho British navy, who were about to direct can- nou against usN These sailors wex-o i driven away by rifle fire. mm 1 "On board the Appam, besides four HI f officers and thirty men of the British H i navy, we found ohcBts of gold. These mu we carried with ub to Germany." M " d If wo could -rocongnfzo our duty flj we should 'ho In-iposltJon to -dodge it, ll oo m ft |