Arizona republican., 1917-10-05
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WASHINGTON, Oct 1.-Two Ger man commerce raiders, manned by the crew of the famous Seeadler, which il now develops stranded on Mopeha island, in the south Pacific, after roaming the seas for seven months preying on American and allied ship ping, are operating somewhere in the south Seas, according to a report re- ceiVed tonight at the navy department from the commander of the naval sta tion at Tutuila. Samoan islands.
 The dispatch transmitting the story of Captain Hador Smith, of the Amer ican schooner, Slade one of the See adlers victims, was sent on September zy, several weeks after the two new raiders left Mopeha island, where they had been captured by the Germans. The first put to sea on August 3l, and the other on September g. and it prob- ably was their operations which jed to recent reports of raiders in the Pa cific.
 Before coming to grief on August ?, the Seeadler had added the American schooners A. B. Johnson, Manila and Slade to the list of at least twelve allied vessels which she sank early this year in the south Atlantic ocean. In the long period from last March, when she was last heard from, the raider probably Sent down other craft en- countered in passing through the At lantic. around Cape Horn and across the Pacific to the Society group of French islands, of which Mopeha is one.
 The Seeadler, according to Captain Smiths report, arrived at Mopeha on July 3l Two days later she stranded on the island and was abandoned as total loss, the master and crew, with 27 white men and IT native prisoners making shore in safety. The company remained there until August 21, when the Seeadler's master, accompanied by three officers and two men, put to sea in a motor sloop with machine guns, rifles. bombs and about two months supplies.
 The remainder of the crew stayed on the island until September i, when the French schooner Lutece, bound out of Tahiti, Society islands. arrived at Mopeha and was seized. The schooner and bombs and the Germans immedi- ately put to sea in her.
 The Seeadler's prisoners, of whom Captain Smith was one, were left on the almost desolate island. but on Sep tember 19, Smith and three others of the prisoners departed in an open boat and reached Tutila ten days later. smith reported the prisoners badly in need of food and water.
 The dispatch from the naval officer did not indicate the size of the raiders and nothing is known of them, as one was unnamed, while the French schooner Lutece is not listed in avail able shipping records.
 The dispatch from Tutuila, as an nounced tonight by the navy depart ment. follows:
 "The master of the American schooner R. C. Shade arrived in an open boat at this island with three other men from Hopeha island, which they left September 19. The master, Hador Smith, states that his vessel was captured by the German raider Seeadler on June r. The schooner was destroyed by dynamite. The crew was taken aboard the raider.
 Smith states that the Seeadler cap tured on June IA the American schooner A. B. Johnson and on July the American schooner Manila The Manila was destroyed by dynamite after which the Seeadler proceeded to
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