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Show NEW STORY OF GERMAN PROWESS Fast Cruiser Roon Reported at Large in the Atlantic Assisted As-sisted in Sinking Ships Washington, Feb. 3. Secretary Lansing stated today that there was no question as to the Appam's status stat-us as a prize, but that the question of her disposition still Involved further fur-ther consideration of The Hague convention con-vention and the Prussian-American treaty. Lieutenant Berg's refusal to land British seamen who were gun pointers on British merchantmen will be the subject of further consideration considera-tion Possibility that a still more formidable formid-able German sea raider than has been reported the fast cruiser Roon is at large in the Atlantic and the report re-port that the Roon in fact was nearby near-by and directed the operations, of the raider, called the Moewe, which sunk six ships and captured the Appam Ap-pam within two hundred miles of the coast of Spain, promises to add another an-other chapter to the yet untold story of the daring of German sailors. The Roon is a fast, heavily armored cruiser of nearly 10.000 tons, with more than 18,000 horsepower, 400 feet long and with both oil and coal boilers. boil-ers. She was built at Kiel in 1902, has four funnels and extra high wireless wire-less masts. She carries a Krupp armor ar-mor belt, four torpedo tubes which give discharges forward, astern and broadside and mounts 28 guns in all, four S.2 inch, ten 5.9 inch and fourteen 3.4 inch. The British embassy denies it has information that the Roon is at large and was reported off the Canary islands, but the story that she accompanied accom-panied the Moewe is accredited to British aboard the Appam. |