An item dated the 12th referred to an earlier item in this newspaper reporting that of the Schouwenbank (1) German warships (2)were crossing hoping for prizes. On last Sunday morning they succeeded in holding up the Zeemeeuw during a thick fog at sea.(3) Events like this are a regular discussed by sailors in the mouth of the river Schelde meeting constant German warships. Sailors who had been in England remarked that hundreds of ships are coming and going from British ports and that one in the six weeks the Germans managed to capture a ship.
Notes
1. Location 25 kilometres out of the coast of Schouwen-Duiveland, province zeeland, Netherlands.
2. Germany was just like Austria one of the countries which lost the First World War (28 July 1914-11 November 1918 armistice). Their main opponents were Belgium, France, England, Russia and at the end of the war the USA.
3. The newspaper De Zeeuw dated the 12th reported that this Dutch steamship was brought to Zeebrugge suspected of having contraband on board. Other Dutch newspapers reported that she was underway from Rotterdam to London when she was stopped in the morning of the 10th. Built in 1911 at Alblasserdam as a steel-built twin screw motor boat was she property of the firm Vermeer en van den Arend/Overzeesche Vrachtmaatschappij, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Tonnage 400 gross and 230 net tons. Her crew was allowed to return to the Netherlands. She was laoded with 350 ton of victuals. Tugs brought her to Zeebrugge.
