Norfolk Ya., Feb. 2.
The steamer Appam is still lying under the guns of the fortress and her passengers are promenading her decks.
Captain H. G. Harrison told the American pilot "the weather was bright and clear and we were moving at a fair speed when we sighted amp steamer approaching. Fearing nothing we made no preparations. Suddenly the tramp fired a gun. Ihave to. Simultaneously a forecastle made of canvas on the tramp was dropped revealing a battery of large guns. We surrendered without any resistance.
prize crew boarded the Apps under the guns of the raider, disarmed and imprisoned the crew in the cabins and liberated twenty German #risoners, who assisted the prize crew to head the vessel towards Americs German stationed in the wireless-room received messages, but sent none. Thus the whereabouts of the British cruisers were known and the German Commander, Berg, steered away."
Berg, the German Commander of the Appam, says that the gunboat Moewe captured the Appam sixty miles north of Madeira on January On the 17th the Moewe engaged the Clan Mactavish and sank her after an exciting combat in whic' fifteen of the crew of the latter were killed. The Appam returned and picked up four of the crew of the Clan Mactavish from the water.
The Commander of the Moewe then ordered Commander Berg to proceed to America,
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