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Show UU I RAIDER EXPLOITS CAUSEJEJOIHG Big Above-Water-Ship Eludes British and Passes Out Into Atlantic. London. Jan. 22. 7:60 a. m. German Ger-man rejoicing over the exploits of the commerce raider in the south Atlantic is unbounded, according to an Amsterdam Amster-dam despatch to the Times. Captain Persius, tho German naval critic, writing writ-ing in the Tageblatt, recalls that when German destroyers "carried out attacks at-tacks in the English channel and at the mouth of the Thames in October and November." Arthur Balfour, then secretary of the navv, assured the house of commons that the British guard service "would be so careful in the future that the Germans would never venture to undertake such dan geroiis expeditions again." Captain Persius says that Sir Edward Ed-ward Carson has been unable to justify justi-fy Mr Balfour's assertion and main lainc tV'i "P.armnn lloht fnrt'&a h.lVfl made several attacks In British w aters and the Moowe, the second, a big above-the-water ships, successfully passed the British adance guards and reached tho Atlantic." "Our thought during tho next month nnd weeks," concludes Captain Persius, will accompany the Moewe the second and our hopes are with the bruve crew. The Times correspondent says that the chief of the admiralty staff when congratulating Lieutenant Badewltz, the prize commander of the Yarrow-dale, Yarrow-dale, asked whothor it did not seem a ticklish Job to take charge of 469 prisoners with a such a small crew, Lieutenant Badewltz answered that he had let his prisoners movo about freely and considered the situation safe "as long a6 one had a pistol " He also said that feeding the prisoners pris-oners was easy, considering the circumstances. cir-cumstances. Jap Steamer Sunk. London. Jan. 22. 10:0" a m. Lloyd's announces that the Japanese steamer Kisogata Maru III . 2,608 tons, I has been sunk The British steamer ; Baron Sempill, 607 tons, is also believed be-lieved to have been destroyed. nn |
