Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-02
STORIES OF THE WAR
German Raider Wrecked.


 A dispatch to the, Navy Department from Tutuila, Samoa, announces the arrival there of an open boat contain ing the master of the American German raider Seead1er ran ashore and was abandoned on Mopelia (Mo- EehaJ-Lerd Howe Island-on August
 The commander and crew of the raider afterwards seized motor sloop and the French schooner Luteoe. which were armed. and put. to sea on August 21 and September 5, to carry out raids. Before she stranded the Seeadler sank the American schoon- CTS C. Shade, A. B. Johnson, and Man ila
 The seeadler left 47 prisoners on the island, and they are now in a state of destitutiof1.--ReUter.
 | The German raider SeeadIer, whose career as cofnmerced destroy CT has apparently come to a full stop on MopeIia <AIopeha), an atoII of the Society Islands. is said to be cap- tured American barque. fitted with in tcEnal combustion engines. which was taken into Cuxhaven by German rrize crew in August. 1915, having been captured CT a voyage from New York to Archangel with a cargo of cotton. She was equipped presumably at Cuxhaven. with two 42 inch guns, l5 nachine-Suns. wireless. provisions For 16 months, and an ample supply Of
 
 ently the guns were mounted at sea. The crew numbered 64, and the See adler was under the command of Count Luckne-. The raider is be- ,ieved to have left Germany on De- cember 22, 1916 escorted by a sub- lrari1e.
 Having slipped through our. block sde, she was first heard of as an in dustrious. minelayer off the coast of Brazil. Then at the end Of March the Trench barque Cambronne arrived at Rio de Janeiro. with over POO Brit isl, French. and Italian sailors and pa ssengers. from Il vessels sunk by aone tha eefan fsse sls rsiser t,e off from Montevideo to Plymouth. with $500 tons of grain-she was fired up oc before surrcndering-and the Du- rlefx. whose captain. before leaving the raider in his sunken ships boa ts, had to promise mot to engage in any act of war during the remaining per iod of hostilities.'' Among the survi- vcrs of the crews of the sunken ships were half a dozen Americans.
 The Seeadlers practice was to hoist the Norwegian flag, and exchange it for the German ensign when she had come within range of her victim. Iat her con1man andec was not without sea manners. at least in the first and most successful phase of his< career as com merce-destroyer. He did not fire un- less it became necessary, from his point of view; and one of his priso..- CTS r(the only one whom he did not ceIease) was kept in custody becau@, Ee disdainfully refused to accept 15O marks in German paper money as wages for his work in the Seeadler's galley.
 How the raider has been occupied during the six months that have pass ed since she was reported from Rio de Janeiro remains a matter of specu- la tioi1, until such time as Count Luck ner publishes heI log. He would have nc difficulty in obtaining supplies from unarrned ships, or hiding places, when necessary among the South Sea islands. The message from Wash lrgton indicates that latterly the See adler preyed upon small trading schooners and similar craft
 Mopefla. or Mopelia. in the Society Islands. about 100 miles west south west of Marua was discovered by Wallis in 1767. and called by him Lord Howe Island. It consists of many low islands. on a reef surrounding la gCon. without permanent inhabitants, but frequently visited by fishermen for turt1e-Loncon Times.