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Show CAPTAIN MEETS GERMANRAIDER Ship Carried Large Crew and Had Evidently Been Long Time at Sea. GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 24. Captain William Price of the fishing schooner Elizabeth King which arrived here tonight, reported an encounter Sunday with what ho believed was a German raider, off Nantucket. Captain Price said the steamer approached ap-proached within 100 of the Elizabeth King, keeping forward and aft guns trained on the schooner. "I expected expect-ed he would hail us," said Captain Price, "but he did not, so I asked htm through a megaphone if he had seen nny fjshing vessels in that vicinity. An officer shouted back something in a foreign language that none of us understood." The steamer was about 2500 tons and looked as if it had been at sea a long time. Two unusually high wireless wire-less masls rose from the docks. It bore no name or home port and lew no flag. It had been camouflaged apparently, ap-parently, but tho paint was nearly I washed off and the sides were covered with iron rust. There was a large crew aboard, Captain Price said. The incident occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning. This was three hours before a German submarine subma-rine appeared off Orleans on the Cape Cod shore and attacked a tugboat and Its tow of barges. The position given by Captain Price places the steamer in the lane of trans-Atlantic travel. The sinking of the schooner Robert and Richard of the Gloucester fishing fleet Monday by a German submarine has not intimidated fishermen here. Schooners have gone to sea since the news was received and tho captains declare they will keep on fishing in j spite of enemy submarines. |