DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

210 SUBMARINE WARFARE.
As -soon as we saw the Annie Busse we shifted our
course direct for the boat, and as they had sighted we
were enabled to come on board at about 12.30 p. m.,
after not more than 1 £ hours on the water.
The patrol boat was anchored, and on account of the
thick fog it was unable to bring us in until February 24th,
on which date we landed at Wilhelmshaven at 1 p. m.
From there we were sent to Bremerhaven, reaching the
latter port at 10 p. m. the same day.
During our stay on the Anne Busse we were most
courteously and kindly treated, and received everything
necessary in the way of sleeping accommodations and
food, etc.
The only men of the crew lost were those previously
mentioned, Third Assistant Engineer William Bazzell, of
Pensacola, Fla., Fireman Antonio Martinez, and Coal
Passer Segunda Blaz, the last two of Corunna, Spain.
EDGAR L. COLE,
Master of S. S. Carib.
CONSULAR AGENCY OP THE UNITED STATES,
City of Bremerhaven, Empire of Germany, ss:
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the abovenamed
Captftin Edgar L. Cole, February 26th, 1915.
J. F. BUCK,
Consular Agent of the United States of America.
[S«al of American Consular Agenoy.j
[Inclosure 2,]
Sworn Statement of First Officer ofS. S. " Carib."
My name is George H. Gifford.
I was born in Salem, Mass., March 24, 1875.
I have been first officer on the Carib since two weeks
before we sailed for Germany.
I have never made a trip to Germany before.
The ship was loaded with 4,600 bales of cotton and
250 tons of pig iron as ballast.
We finished loading at Charleston January 26th, 1915,
and sailed the following day at 1 p. m.
We had 30 men in our crew, including officers, when we
sailed.
The captain had special instructions to proceed to the
Isle of Wight to get a pilot, and from there, in case he
could not get one, to proceed to Hook of Holland for
German pilot. He had received these instructions from
the Clyde Steamship Company before sailing.
We also had a chart from the United States Hydrographic
Office, I think the one for January. We also
ha»d Hydrographic bulletins. I did not see in the bulletins
any special instructions for the trip, but we were
not looking for other instructions, as we were ordered to
via Hook of Holland.
We had bad weather twice between Charleston and
the Isle of Wight, the first time February 8th, when we
had to heave to, and the second time February 13th.