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Show GERMAN RAIDER SCOURSJHE SEA FIFTEEN VESSELS SUNK BY RAIDER AND TWO STEAMERS HELD AS PRIZES. . Steamers Long Overdue and Loaded with Arms, Ammunition and Horses Believed to Have Been Sent to the Bottom. New York. According to advices from Rio Janeiro, a German commerce com-merce raider has been working havoc in the Atlantic ocean on entente allied al-lied shipping. Between the Azores islands and the South American coast during the period from December 12 to January 10, at least thirteen vessels ves-sels ten British steamers, a Japanese Japan-ese steamer and two French sailing craft were captured by the raider, and it is presumed that most of them were sunk. The British admiralty assumes that eight of the British steamers and the two French sailing ships, all of them long overdue, and some of them known to have been loaded with arms, ammunition, horses, and other ward supplies for the entente allies, have been sunk by the raider. The Japanese steamer was released by the raider off the coast of Brazil and permitted to land at Pernambuco 237 men of crews of vessels destroyed. destroy-ed. One of the British steamers is said to have ben sent away by the raider with 400 additional men to be landed. The whereabouts of the raider raid-er is not known. The first official statements given out at Rio Janeiro regarding the raider raid-er were to the effect that seven ves sels had been sunk and nine captured. |