CRUISE OF THE MOEWE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 87, 14 April 1917, Page 2

CRUISE OF THE MOEWE.

FIGHT WITH THE OTAKI

RAIDER OF MANY COLOMES

LONDON, March 30. Router's correspondent at Copen-

I hagen states that during the fight \ between the Moewe' and the New Zealand Shipping Company's Otaki, British prisoners on the raider forced the iron doors of their quarter*. German soldiers armed with hand grenades prevented them reaching the deck. The Moewe on one occasion was

cruising outside Capetown. .. At another time she was off Rio de Janeiro. She then turned and made for Germany, by way of, Newfoundland and the North Atlantic, when her coal was running out. The British prisoners were kept xmder strict surveillance, and were isolated from the others.

The Moewe carried "four Big guns. She had five torpedo tubes, and was fitted with high x-emovable masts and dummy funnels. She was repeatedly painted different colors. ( She had also a sham steering wheel. At night time the cruiser went at full speed. In the day time she steamed slowly. The Moewe passed Elsinore on March 21st, and entered the Sound. On arrival at Kiel the. British officers among the prisoners were sent^ to Karlsruhe and the men to Westphalia. The fires on the Moewe caused by

the Otaki's shells was responsible for insufferable heat. The M^ewe i stripped her victims ol! metal fittings. During the homeward run a British armed steamer attacked the Moewe. In an obstinate fight the British steamer's second officer was killed, and the gunner's arms were blown off. The steamer was sunk and the survivors rescued.