The weekly Alaska citizen., 1917-12-03

oh.alnea hy -na Navy u.a.rtm.n from Cap.a.a Ha.la- smah of ,h. American schooner H (. S.aar. au. three other mariners who landed a' TuuIa in an open boat ~-pt.mn.r 29 after being maraoaad ou Noroa. Island by .he master 70. d., < .ad..r when .ho raider ar9lnI.a and WAS abandoned
 The Seeadler formerly rA" Amer can ship Pass os nalmaha. b.,on-.d to the Boston Lumber Company and was .a tao Nova Scotia trade before the war. After the war brok. oa. she Was put un4er the American ha- and was captured by tae British and prize officer wa- put aboard hu with instructions 10 take her to Kirk Wal. Scotland on the way he wa- captured by a German submarine and sent to Bremen and fitted out a~ .. raider A p.ckcd crew was play.. aboard. some of whom spoke Nosa gian, and sent oIt into the Atan.. under the gutse of a Norve-.an ship
 The ruse worked so well that after leaving Bremen on December 2l. l9l6. the SeeadIer was held up b. the Brit ish auxiliary cruiser Highland Scot, examined and passed. Sailors tdoa'. fcation books issued by ta" Norwe gian government Were furnished rh. men, although saey probably were taken from captured Norwes.an }'s- seIs and gwen to the men who s"~m- cd to fl the descriptions given. These. together with pictures of Nor wegian kings and queens gave th- ship the appearance Of a Norwegian.
 Captain Smith learned ,ha' while cruising in the Atlantic thirteen ships, valued by the Germans ar Co., 000,000 marks. were captured. and four in the Pacidc. the k. C. SIadc. the American schooner \ E. Johnson. the American schooner Manila and the French schooner Lutece.
 Relating the story of the capture of his ship, the slado Captain Smith said:
 q left Sidney on April 24 l9lL and proceeded without any incidcn. until the evening of June r, when | was in latitude about north and longitude 15o west. On the evening of that day, about o'clock, the sec ond mate reported to me that a ship was firing on Us. I went on deck and looked aft. and instantly. as l came on deck, they fired again, and l saw the shell fall short about two miles. She was about eight miles off. There was heavy squall starting to east ward wind favorable to this time and I thought it possible to get away and kept holding on. Bur she kept firing on me at intervals of about five to ten minutes, and WAS coming up on me fast.
 The ninth shot fired about six o'clock, struck very close, passing the poop and splashtng the water on the ship, Then I concluded that there wasn't any use, and I lowered down spanker, clewed down sail, hoisted the American flag and hove to. About o'clock the raider was up alongside and asked what ship. told him what it was, and he told me to lower down sails and stand by, and he would send an officer aboard me. Shortly after the prize officer came aboard, and a doctor and about ten men These officers were in uniform They told me to leave the ship and go on board the raider and they would give me time in the morn ing to pack my clothes.
 They took all our men aboard the raider except the cook Next morning l went back on board with all my men and packed up. We left the ship with our belongings June IS. We were put on board the raider again. Shortly after l saw from the raider that they cut holes in the masts and placed dynamite bombs in each mast and put fire to both ends of the ship and left her I saw the masts go over the side and the ship was burning from end to end, and the raider steamed away"
 Captain Smith said the raider was a full-rigged ship of steel or iron,- about 2,3OO tons, propelled by oil burning engines Her captain was Felix Graf yon Luckner, active cap tain-lieutenant; the first lieutenant, Alfred kling; prize officer, Richard Pless. All told, her complement was sixty-eight officers and men. Mounted