The British cruiser had no doubts of the blue liner with the broad black band, for the survivors of the Nichi Maru had been picked up by one of the patrolling vessels. Once more that mixed blessing, wireless telegraphy, had been brought into service, and a description of the raider sent far and wide. Already a number of light cruisers were on their way from Simon's Bay to intercept the Pelikan , while the blockading squadron off the east coast of Africa had been warned of the likely attempt on the part of the fugitive to gain one of the little-known and unfrequented rivers of the last of Germany's overseas possessions.
Von Riesser alternately kept glancing ahead and astern. The haze was beginning to envelop the monitor and her escort.
He shouted an order to a petty officer. The man doubl
