urned to her home port from a very successful
second raiding trip in the Atlantic Ocean which had yielded
twenty-seven captured vessels, most of which of course had been sunk.

Still another German raider was heard of on March 30, 1917. On that
day the French bark _Cambronne_ arrived at the Brazilian port of Rio
de Janeiro, having on board the crews of eleven vessels which had been
captured and sunk by the raider. The latter was said to have been the
former American bark _Pass of Balmaha_ which had been captured by the
Germans in August, 1915, and at that time had been taken into
Cuxhaven. She had been renamed _Seeadler_ and was a three-master of
about 2,800 tons, square rigged, with a speed of about twelve knots,
and was equipped with a powerful wireless plant. Her armament was said
to have consisted of two 105-mm. guns and sixteen machine guns, and a
crew of sixty-four men. The boat apparently had left Germany in
December, 1916, escorted by a submarine, and had successfully evaded
the British patrol, not mounting her guns until she had run the
British blockade. The eleven ships known to have been sunk by the
_Seeadler_ were:

_Antonin_, French sailing vessel, 3,071 tons, owned in Dunkirk; 31 men
on board.

_British Yeoman_, British sailing vessel, 1,963 tons, owned in
Victoria, B. C.; 21 men.

_Buenos Ayres_, Italian sailing vessel, 1,811 tons, owned in Naples;
21 men.

_Charles Gounod_, French sailing vessel, 2,199 tons, owned in Nantes;
24 men.

_Dupleix_, French sailing vessel, 2,206 tons, owned in Nantes; 22 men.

_Gladys Royle_, British steamship, 3,268 tons, owned in Sunderland; 26
men.

_Horngarth_, British steamship, 3,609 tons gross, owned in Cardiff;
33 men.

_Lady Island_ (or _Landy Island_), 4,500 tons; 25 men.

_La Rochefoucauld_, French sailing vessel, 2,200 tons; owned in
Nantes; 24 men.

_Perce_, British schooner, 364 tons, owned in Halifax; 6 men, 1 woman.

_Pinmore_, British sailing vessel, 2,431 tons, owned in Greenock, 29
men.

_The Cambronne_, which on her arrival at Rio de Janeiro had on board
263 men, had been brought up by the raider on March 7, 1917, in the
Atlantic Ocean in latitude 21 south, longitude 7 west, or almost on a
straight line with Rio, but twenty-two days east.

During March, 1917, the British Government announced an extension of
the danger area in the North Sea, which affected chiefly the protected
area off Holland and Denmark. On March 28, 1917, German warsh