26 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 2

Thursday's papers contained a Reuter telegram from Santa Cruz, Teneriffe,

stating that the English ship Westburn,' flying the German flag, and having on board a prize crew, had lust come in. She had two hundred and six prisoners taken from five British and one Belgian vessels, and also eleven Spanish sailors. The raider to whom the Westburn ' fell a victim is said to be the Moire; the ship that captured the Apparn.' What was her original name and what is her speed and tonnage are at present one of the best-kept secrets of the sea.