The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-12-11
SEA ADLER CAPTAIN
CAPTURED BY POLICE
OFFICER WITH BLUFF
Crew, Armed To the Teeth, Lay
Down To One Man With
One Revolver
HOW FIJI WENT TO WAR
AND WON A VICTORY
Plenty Of Germans Footloose;
Wires Cut and Other Mischief j.
Feared, Writes Sergeant

South Sea raider and description Of
how Fiji has at last got into the war
zone, has been received in personal
letter to former resident Of Suva,
now in Honolulu, from one who has
been taking part in the activities
around the Fijian capital.
Prom this letter II appears that the
capture of Lieut. Comdr. Count Won
Kheknow, the officer heading the Sea
Adler, pirates, is an important event.
This doughty bomber Of merchandising
is q survivor Of the Jutland battle, was
second in command of the raider Moe.
we, has sixteen medals including the
iron cross, Of course, and Il godfather
TO the youngest child Of the German
crown prince f. s's
The letter gives Fijis war expert
ences as follows: s-.-..H ~
war Comes At Last
'aDear Abe--Fiji has at last come in.
TO the War Zone; we have had the
most exciting episode south Of the
line since the war commenced, and the
facts are as follows:
'.On Friday, the twenty-Rrst Of last
month, word was received at Levuka
from Scotchman named Mcpherson,
who is an overseer on an island called
Wakaya, which h about one and
half miles from Levuka, that an armed
motor boat had arrived on the island.
He got away in cutter to Levuka,
IL. A.. A II.
tiles, who first would not believe him,
but later on he was able to convince
them, and they sent out the Amra, the
interinsular passenger and cargo steam!
er, on which they put ONE sub.inspec-
tor of police (Hills) and six native
constables The sub-inspector carried
q revolver, the rest were unarmed.
There were also twenty-five passengers
bound for Suya. I...3 -.
Blurred Into Surrender .,a..,.a. .4tti
"When they arrived at the island
they saw the boat; Hills with the
Motive police proceeded ashore in a
rowing boat to where the launch was,
and on arrival called on the occupants
to surrender, which they Immediately
did, being under the impression that
NANAN vas ~ BaNty Oh INC
Amra. The prisoners were fully arm
ed, having one Of the latest types of
machine guns fixed in the bow of the
launch, and each man had pistol, rife,
bayonet, mines and bombs, three thou
sand pounds Of special ammunition,
two eases champagne, plenty of provi-
sions, also $50 pounds in gold and a
Bank Of England note for fifty pounds,
80 You win see that they were very
well fitted up. They were all Ger
mans. #
"The, captured crew consisted Of six
men, being rs follows: Lieut., ComdI.
Count Won Klucknow, Lieut.. Engineer
Herbrieht, the drill instructor for the
German navy, a non-com and two
"A. yBs. < .N| .-.I
fngiie Hand Baggage 80 . ~
when they were taken on board the
Amrp the first thing that the count
did was to hand over two bombs, for
which he said he had no further use,
but advised them to be very careful
with them. He then asked where was
the covering party, and when he was
informed that there was none he near
~ broke down. He then turned to his
engineer and said, what else could he
expect on Friday He also said the
inspector was either q damn fool or a
brave man TO 60 out to his launch
armed the way he was, as il he had
thought for one moment that there
was no covering party he could have
blown them all to bits in about five
minutes. .... IT,. ..
Under Guard At suva 49,. -.
~ The prisoners were brought direct
TO Suya, and the whole town turned
out to see them arrive; there was very
little hooting except by the natives,
and few Of the girls. After having
been taken to the police station, they
were transferred to the Rest House
al Draiba (Dremba) next to the Gov
eminent House. This is a very fine
concrete building, which was built for
the native chiefs to stop in whilst in
pufa. nlit.sS u ut3.a e
,f.The Germans were, Kept there. for
ave days when further reports came
30 that more Germans had been seen
round the main island, when the pris.
oners were Immediately transferred TO
the gaol where special guards were
mounted Hg"
WINK W tht VI tue
nors II was decided by the Governor to
mobilize all the defense force. was
called up Just ON midnight and told to
report at six the next morning, which
I did, and was made orderly sergeant
and record clerk, and for nine days
gYeraged ,eighteen to nineteen hours a
Day n real graft. We had over three
hundred men out. ...9". p. ... .
wars Alarms f,.a..
1.-THE arranging Of the guards and
patrols and reliefs kept me going all
the time but II was all very exciting
a. the different reports came In, some
true and some real hair raisers. As
most Of the natives suffer greatly from
imaginitis, the humorous side was great,
~ 70 the front, especially where the
native and half caste sections were, but
20 appreciate them fully one has to
know them .r ~" g. >"
Zone little incident is now known as
the battle Of what For. Seventeen
half castes and two white non-coms
werp the heroes of the episode. Tbev
were at place called Tamavua, (six