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TIME, Nov. 24, under "What is the Willmoto?" says: "...and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): 'I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew.'" The signal the Odenwald hoisted was F over M which has the above meaning. The signal N over O means "Fire is gaining rapidly. Take off passengers and crew...
...took a list and settled by the stern, but did not sink. The cruiser sent a salvage crew aboard, who eventually succeeded in pumping water out faster than the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, shipped it; and got the engines going...
...cruiser dispatched a boarding party. But before the boarding party could get to the "Willmoto," the merchantman hauled down her call and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): "I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew." Immediately afterward there were two dull explosions aft, and lifeboats dropped...
...Germans were so scared that they jumped right into the sea. The others were just sullen; all they would say was that the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, was due to sink within the half-hour...
...that happened two weeks ago. This week the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, dragged into San Juan, P.R., under her own motive power but in the captive power of the U.S. Navy. She was proof in bulk that little suspicions can make a big difference...