Paris, Oct. 30, Five German raiders appear to be operating in the north and south Allantic, according to, the milita correspondent of "L'Intransigeant From incomplete evidence, he says, the raiders are reported to be the two pocket-battleships, Deutschland and Admiral Scheer, and three other vessels, the Westphalen, Friesenland and Ostmark, which before the war were supply-ships for German South Atlantic plane services—Reuter, British Assurances On Athenia Case London, Oct. 31.
On the instructions of the British Government, the British Ambassador in Washington, Lord Lothian, has conveyed to the United States' Gove ernment the following assurances regarding the sinking of the Athen!
1. The Athenia carried no bullion or securities. and no guns, munitions. of war, oF explosives either as cargo or stores.
2. She was not sunk either by contact with a British mine, by a British submarine, by gunfire from British destroyers, or by an internal explosion, but in accordance with the evidence in possession of the British Government, by a submarine.
3. She was neither armed nor stiffened to receive armament of any ind.
4. It was not Intended to use the jessol_ a5 an armed merchant miser, or in any other offensive capacity, at the end fon which she was sunk, 5. The Chief Oficer, Copland. of the Athi 1 hag sworn an affidavit that he never discussed the question fof whether oF not there were guns fon board the ship, and that there were, in point of fact, no guns of other munitions carried us cargo in the ship. on that -voyage—Reuler,
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