Barely a day out of Valparaiso, the 4930-lon_ new German freighter Duss seldorf was captured by the British cruiser Despatch off Caldera, 350 miles north of Valparaiso, at dawn today.
The Dusseldorf at the time was lose to the Pajaros Islands, The feat was all the more remarkable for the fact that it was accomplished 4 o'clock in the morning, before daylight, On the Bremen-Valpamiso run, the Dusseldorf was a Norddeutscher Lloyd ship and was built only three years ago. She was seized by HM, Despateh outside Chilean territorial waters.
First reports on the German freight ter's capture had claimed she was sunk after her crow put out in lifes Boats—Havas,
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