herself, she
was scuttled by her own crew.

It is now necessary to take up again the story of the German raiding
ships at large on the high seas. As has been told above, after the
_Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ ended her career by putting in at Newport News
the only German ships of the kind remaining at large were the
_Karlsruhe_ and _Kronprinz Wilhelm_. But on the 1st of April, 1915,
the _Macedonia_, a converted liner which since November, 1914, had
been interned at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, succeeded in slipping out
of the harbor laden with provisions and supplies for use of warships
and made her way to South American waters in spite of the fact that
she had run through lines patrolled by British cruisers.

The _Kronprinz Wilhelm's_ career as a raider ended on April 11, 1915,
when, like the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_, she succeeded in getting past
the British cruisers and slipped into Newport News, Virginia. How this
former Hamburg-American liner had slipped out of the harbor of New
York on the night of August 3, 1914, with her bunkers and even her
cabins filled with coal and provisions, with all lights out and with
canvas covering her port holes has already been told. From that date
until she again put in at an American port she captured numerous
merchant ships, taking 960 prisoners and doing damage amounting to
more than $7,000,000. She kept herself provisioned from her captives,
and it was only the poor condition of her plates and boilers that made
her captain give up raiding when he did. Her movements had been
mysterious during all the time she was at large. She was known to have
reprovisioned the cruiser _Dresden_ and to have taken an almost
stationary position in the South Atlantic in order to act as a
"wireless station" for the squadron of Admiral von Spee. But when the
latter was defeated off the Falkland Islands, she resumed operations
as a raider of commerce. When she came into Newport News more than 60
per cent of her crew were suffering from what was thought to be
beri-beri; she had but twenty-one tons of coal in her bunkers and
almost no ammunition.

The total damage inflicted on the commerce of the Allies by the
_Emden_, _Karlsruhe_, _Kronprinz Wilhelm_, _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_,
_Koenigsberg_, _Dresden_ and _Leipzig_ amounted, by the end of May,
1915, to $35,000,000. Sixty-seven vessels had been captured and sunk
by them.

In the Dardanelles the naval operations were resumed, to some extent,
during the mon