From the officers of the steamship Condor, captured and sunk by the German cruiser Karlsruhe in the South Atlantic, the Imperial Merchant Service Guild learns that this vessel had on board among the crew a number of German sailors and firemen. The owners of the vessel had given the captain instructions not to take any German seamen, but certain German subjects signed articles in a United States port under false pretences by declaring that they were of Dutch, Norws, Swedish, and Tanish nationality. As soon as the lieutenant from the Karlsruhe with an armed boat's crew boarded the steamer the Germans promptly declared their true nationality, and took part in the looting and sinking of the British steamer upon which they had found employment. After this they joined the German merchant vessels which are being used scouts by the enemy.
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