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Show BRITISH CAPTURE CRUISER MOEWE German Raider Taken by Cruisers to Trinity Island Russian Steamer Is Sunk. Buenos Ayros, March 2. Press dispatcher dis-patcher from Montevideo say that a steamer arriving from Europe intercepted, inter-cepted, near the coast of Brazil, a wireless message stating that Britlnh cruisers had captured the German auxiliary aux-iliary cruiser Moewe. Tho Moewe, it la said, was taken by the British cruisers to Trinity island is-land The American steamer Santa Barbara Bar-bara has arrived at Montevideo, her captain making the announcement that a French cruiser which put out from Dakar on the west coast of Africa, Afri-ca, encountered a German raider, name not given, and opened fire on her Tender cover of darkness, the German ship got away. She was, however, dama-ged on her upper works by the Frenoh fire Russian Steamer Sunk. ' London, March 2, 11.37 a. m. The Russian steamship Alexander Wentsel has been sunk Eighteen of the ctoto were drowned and eleven rescued The Alexander Wentsel was of 2,838 gross tons, was 320 feet long and 45 feet beam. She was owned by the Northern Steamship company of Pet rograd. Stockholm, via London. March 2, G 45 a m. It has been learned that the Swedish steamer Knlppla was sunk S00 yard6 inside th6 limit of Swedish waters. On February 29, It was announced that the Knlppla, a vessel of 531 tons, had struck a mine and sunk south of Falsterbo, Sweden, and that the crow had been rescued On the same day a dispatch from Copenhagen reported that, according to a local newspaper, a large German flotilla was engogod in laying mines south of Falsterbo |