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Show RAIDER MOEWE'S LIST OFVICTIMS Fifty American Muleteers Said to be Among the Crews of ike Captured. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. March 25. (Shipping men here say fifty Ameri-can Ameri-can muleteers were aboard the British Brit-ish steamer Esmeraldaa reported I sunk by the German raider Moewe. The agents believe the men were I among the prisoners taken to Germany Ger-many by the raider BERLIN, Thursday, March 22 (By wireless to Sayville, March 25.) An additional list of vessels captured by U e German auxiliary cruiser Moewe, which recently returned to Germany from a second cruise in the Atlantic, was issued by the admiralty today. The admiralty statement reads: "To the booty captured by the Micwe, the following Is added: "Mount Temple, British steamer, with 7.5 centimeter gun, 9,792 tons cross, with provisions, parcel.-, and horses; Duchess of Cornwall. British ailing ship of 152 tons, -with dsh;i King George, British steamer of ".852 tons gross, with explosives, provisions and parcels; Cambrian Wange (Cambrian (Cam-brian Range?), British steamer of 4,-200 4,-200 tons gross, wilh wheat and parcels; par-cels; George. British steamer, with 12 centimeter gun, 10,000 tons gross with wheat, meat and horses Varrowdale, British steamer, of 4,600 tons gross, with ammunition, provisions and war materials; St. Theodore, British steamer, of 5.000 tons gross, with coal; Dramatist, British steamer, of 5.400 tons gross, with ammunition and fruit; Nantes, French sailing ship, of 2,600 tons gross, with saltpeter; As-tierea, As-tierea, French sailing f-hip, ol 8,100 tons gross, with wheat; Hudson Maru Japanese steamer, of 3.800 tons gross, with parcels; Radnoshire British steamer, with 12 centimeter gun, 4,-300 4,-300 tons cross, with coffee and cocoa; Minieh. British steamer of 3.800 tons I gross listed at 2.890 ions gross), with coal Netherby Hall. British steamer, of 4,400 tons gross, with rice and par- ' eels. Some Ships in Ccilfast "Jean, Canadian sailing ship, of 215 tons gross, with sugar: Staut, Norwe i gian sailing ship of 1,200 tons gross, i with whale oil. Rreckonshire, British1 steamer, with 12 centimeter gun, of I 8.400 tons gross, with coal. French Prince, British steamer, of 4,800 tons j gross, with coal Kal henna CKather-ine?), CKather-ine?), British steamer, of 2,900 tons I gross, with wheat; Rhodante (Rho-dantehe?), (Rho-dantehe?), British steamer, of 3,000 tons gross, in ballast, Esmeraldas. ' (Esmeraldas?), British steamer, of' j SSO tons cross, in ballast, Oiaki. British steamer of 7,400 tons gross (listed at 9,575 tons gross), with 12 centimeter gun. in gallast; Hemerle-! Hemerle-! ton, British steamer, with 7.5 centimeter centi-meter gun, half a thousand tons cross j (listed at 6.048 tons gross), with food; Governor. British steamer, with 12 I centimeter guns, of 5,500 tons cross, in ballast. "Of iheae prizes the Rr" steamier steam-ier Yarrowdale reached a German port December 31, 1916. with 469 prisoners or board; the Japanese steamer Hudson Hud-son Maru, January 16. 1917. reached Pernambuco with the crews of the tramatist, Radnorshire, Minieh, Netherby Neth-erby Hall, Mantes and Asnieres on loard. The remaining ships were sunk ' The auxiliary cruiser Moewe had on board 593 prisoners." Additions to List The British wireless dispatch received re-ceived March 22 announcing the return re-turn of the Moewe, mentioned the British steamer Voltaire and the Norwegian Nor-wegian steamer Hallbjoerg as among her captures The Mount Temple also was named without the particulars of her armament and carco heme given. The ten vessels last civen on the German list, beginning with thm Ca-lj nadian sailinc ship Jean, were not known to have been among the ves- Bels taken by the raider until the Moewe's arrival at a home port. The t , Duchess of C ornwall, a British three-1, inasted schooner owned in St Johns, , N. F., is another addition to the list. , |