New York, Oct. 21.
The mysterious raider which sank the British steamer Clement in the South Atlantic was the steamer Schwabenland, formerly a base ship for German mail aeroplanes, according to a despatch from Buenos Aires received here today by the "New York Times" The despateh quotes certain diplomatic circles for the report.
The Schwabenland, it adds, was sunk a few days later by a British cruiser, which took off the Schwabenland's crew and captain, and the first officer of the Clement, who had been taken prisoner when the Clement was sunk.
Before the Wer, the Schwabenland was anchored midway between Africa and Brazil. It was equipped with a flight deck and a catapult device for aeroplanes,—Reuter.
A scquct to the murderous attack on two members of the Shanghai auumcipal Ponce on Friday evening, when a Chinese comtioie wus kwea und a sikh consiane gravely injured, was provided yesterauy when, in addition to reimjorced ponce patrols and me presence of tne deserve Unit.and armoured cars, detachments of the Bas: Surrey xegiment in full marching order, including respirators, stood on guard at tie corner of Edinburgh and Vu Yuen Roads, scene of the attack, and Great Western and Edinburgh Roads, while military labour "parties erected sandbag barricades which wu be manned day and might to prevent other attacks, Seen in the picture (top right) is an armoured car, manned by police, while on the left a British sentry passes two Special Municipality policemen at the Edinburgh and Vu Yuen Roads corner, The lower pictures show British soldiers erecting sandbag barricades,
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