The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-09
COMORAN OFFICER
ANDTHREE SAILORS
ARE ABOARDLOGAN
~ {r3iI. 81 49,
Two of Latter Insane And Third
Is Suffering From
tuberculosis
ISOLATION At GUAM
BLAMED FOR TROUBLES
Report That lnterned German
Cruiser win Be Trans
ferred Is Revived

Lieutenant Won Elpons of the Ger.
man converted cruiser Cormoran, in.
termed at Guam, is a passenger in the
army transport Logan, bound for San
Francisco aud Norfolk The lieutenant
was one of the officers who figured
prominently in the clever escape of the
Cormoran, former merchantmen of the
Russian volunteer feet, from japanese
and British men-of war last year.
Besides the lieutenant there are two
insane sailors from the Cormoran:
Stanislaus Lewitski and Hugo de Rog.
genbueke, and another i'll man, F. Seig
meyer, who has tuberculosis. Reports
aboard the Logan and coming from Ma.
Mia are that the solitude TO which the
CormOran's crew is subjected at Guam
Is responsible, in part at least, for the
insanity. Anchored, as the ship Is, far
from shore, the men are in unfavorable
circumstances for their physical and
mental well.being.
cormoran May Be Removed
The report of the Cormoran being
moved from Guam is revived. Manila
now comes in for mention. Last March
Honolulu heard that the navy depart
ment had been asked to send her to
San Francisco or Honolulu, the former
preferred, but no action, so far as
known, ever was taken on that appIica
ton, although it has been before the
department al least eight months
Some understanding with the nations
at war with Germany probably would
have to be reached before the cruiser
could be moved, however.
Medical men Of the navy, stationed
at Guam, have recommended to the
navy department that the Cormoran be
transferred to another station, accord
ing to Manila reports, because of the eff
feet of the isolation upon the men. Be
sides the two insane men in the Logan
there was another, who already has
been sent to the States.
siegmeyer In Bad Shape
Siegmeyer was in bad shape when
taken aboard at Manila, and the cold
and fog of San Francisco win be hard
IN him while he is there, bat he will be
hurried away as rapidly as possible to
the dry air beyond the mountains.
Lieutenant Won Elpons was one of the
officers in the yawl that the Cormoran
cut W "udW ~ Stntl CdDle 10 Den
Meyers of Manila for the steamer Rio
Pasig to take coal to the cruiser At
that time the Cormoran was in hiding
Mt an unknown island with her coal
almost gone. Permission to send the
rablegTam to Manila was refused Won
Elpons, and the wee sailing boat was
interned." In a few days the Cor
moran herself found safety at Guam,
with the Japanese at her heels. Prior
to this time she had fled through the
South Seas, having had particularly
narrow escapes at German New Guinea
from British men-of-war
Escapes Prom Tsingtau
She escaped from Tsngtau before the
japanese invested that stronghold, and
at Tsingtau the old COrmOran, sister
ship to the Geier, now in Honolulu, had
been sruttl"d and her guns put on the
Russian merchantmen, captured early in
the war.
Lieutenant Won ElpOns will report to
the rOmmandant of the Norfolk navy
yard, where are the crews of the in
termed converted cruisers prinZ EiteI
Friedrich and Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm.
Won ElpOns is son Of retired cav
airy officer of the German army who
retIdrs in POtsdam.