Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-10

| her crew were selected because they
spoke the Norwegian language. as
| did her commander, Felix Graf
Won Luckncr, a lieutenant command
| er in active service, known TO III"
! American survivor OF his Southern
Pacific cruise as the count
Was Well Disguised
Disguise ana strategy in getting
the Sea Adler 10 sea did not stop with
this. She was loaded with deckload
Of lumber: her housing and sails
changed past all recognition and the
commanders cabin supplied with pic
lures OF the Norwegian crown
prince and princess, pictures o. other
Nor~ egian nOta5les and library con
| tanning nothing hut Norwegian liter
allure. Even phonograph with notli-
ing but Norwegian records vas plaH cd
| in the captains cabin, and upon ner
| hull was painted Norwegian flags.
On Christmas Day OF last year The
Sea Adler had her third war expert
| ence and for the second time fell
| into tie custody of British cruiser,
the Highland Scot She was exam
| ined by the British commander am
| passed as a neutral vessel with a
cargo which was not cOntraband.
Carried Two Four-inch Guns
A few days later the deck load was
! thrown overheard and her two four
inch guns mounted fore. and aft. It
| was then her career as q raider be-
gan during which - ships. including
two British steamers, were captured
and destroyed By the Sea Adler in the
North ATLANTIC. Her final capture was
French bark aboard which she put
500 prisoners which had been cap
tured. With the Dark's sill riggings
cut to low masts, the French vessel
was permitted to sail for Rio Janeiro
where they all arrived safely.
What appeared to the German Off
GERS an amusing incident of the cruise
with the many prisoners was how the
wife of the French sea captain waved
frantically with her handkerchief to
the wife of the captain Of a Brit
ish vessel on which the raider was
bearing down. But when the Sea Ad-
ier's guns doomed out az the British
vessel, the British nayigatorrs Vile
stopped her waving with frightene2
gesture, the Sea AdleT's officers fire.
Guently recounted to their prisoners in
the Pacific. H.:
Hea66 for the Pacific
When the search Tor the north At.
lantic raider became too hot, the Sea
Adler headed for the Pacific encir-
cling South America by the way Of
Cape Horn From Cape Horn the yes.
sci coasted along the South Ameri.
can coast until east of the Marquesas
islands, from where she headed for
the equator crossing of the trade yes.
sells in the southern Pacific.
The A. B. Johnson, captain Peter.
son in command, bound from Villa
Harbor, Wash, to Newcastle, n. s. W.,
was the first vessel encountered and
captured in the Pacific. This was
June IA, when the A. Johnson was
26 days out from Villa Harbor She
was at latitude 9 south and longitude
$50 west, or about $50 miles south of
the equator when oyertaken by the
Sea Adler. Much difficulty was exper-
fenced by the raiders in destroying
the Johnson. as she was loaded with
lumber. An attempt was made to
burn her, but the lumber cargo could
not be ignited. A number OF shells
from the four-inch guns were fired
into her hulk. but the lumber cargo
still continued to float. Dynamite
was resorted to and the ship left
afire.
vying in interest with the story
of the destruction of American ship
ping in the Pacific is the one telling
of the QUILTING and putting to sea
on raider cruise of the Sea Adler
1.-The second Eagle-from Bremen
haven, Germany, last December.
This story, "a never ending one of
adventure, as told by the German raid.
ers to their American prisoners while
held for weeks aboard the Sea Adler,
left its impression so firmly upon
the mind Of Captain Smith that this
morning he constantly stopped his
tale of adventure to tell of one of the
German raiders, whose accomplish
ments in reality rival those of the dar-
ing crew of the Emden. ...-
The burning hulk OF the schooner
Johnson was sighted the following
night by the master of the American
schooner Otillie Fjord from San Fran
cisco. who narrowly escaped having
his vessel sighted by the Sea Adler.
II was the burnt hulk of the Johnson
which is supposed to have been re-
ported as also sighted near the Jarvis
islands.
r. c. Slade Run Down
Capt Smiths contact with the Ger
man raider began June II, when his
ship, the r. C. Slade, was near lati-
tude 2 North and $50 west, about
100 miles north of the equator and 240
miles from where the a. B. Johnson
had been shelled. -. -.
It was Sunday evening and the first
mate Of the Slade reported to Capt.
Slade about 6 o'clock that an uniden-
titled ship was coming up astern.
Capt. Smith went below for supper
but was called to the deck half an
hour later when the strange vessel
began firing at the Slade. The shells
fell short about two miles as the Sea
Adler was eight miles astern.
At the ninth shot from the Sea Ad-
Ter shell fell so near the Slade that
fountain Of water fell over the deck
and her paint work was blackened by
the powder.
Then ! thought it was time to stop,