The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-12


ton over the ministry. So. ~.
fact Captain Luckner, personally,
went out in this launch, and because Of
lack Of supplies, landed at Tahiti and
all were made prisoners.
Lutece Is Captured ....
Half q month afterward the French
schooner Lutece arrived at Mopeha and
with machine gun the vessel was cap.
tured. The captured vessel was fitted
out with guns, and by sunset of the
same day all the Germans quilted the
island, leaving the Americans marooned
and with little provisions. 49, IS.
The Americans got into arguments
among themselves and two officers came
to. blows, partly due to suggestions that
Tahiti could be reached easily in an
open boat. During the scrap Captain
Southland of the Manila and nine ka-
nakas put to sea in boat to sail to
Tahiti, but nine days afterward the
party returned in a famished condition.
Then I'LL backed up the proposition for
Captain Smith to try to make Tutuila.
On the morning of September he left
the island, using the chronometer saved
from his vessel and sailed 1000 miles,
arriving at Tutuila. The captain, his
second mate, John JOhanson, and one
of the Shade sailors were given passage
to San Francisco on passenger vessel,
and it is believed that vessel went
from Tutuila to save the marooned
sailors.
officer Known Here Sea Pirate
Richard Priess, who was second off
Ger aboard the German passenger liner
Cleveland when it called at Honolulu
three or four times on world tours be-
fore the war, was prize commander
aboard the See Adler, and Captain
Smith states it was due to his inter
yention that the Americans were well
treated aboard the raider.
The See Adler had a net tonnage of
1900, and the Lutece l2O tons. 1t is
unseaworthy and has no auxiliary
power.
The See Adler left Bremerhaven on q
aiding expedition on December Is,
1916. She was loaded with lumber, and
to give every idea that she was Norwe-
gian, the pictures OF the King and
Queen of Norway adorned the cabin
walls. Soon after being passed by the
British cruiser the lumber was thrown
overheard, guns were taken from their
hiding places and mounted, and she was
headed for the South Atlantic, and il is
believed she captured and sunk thir.
teen vessels, including two British
steamers. She captured French bark,
aboard OF which were placed 800 pris-
oners which arrived safely at Rio
Janeiro.A ""'. = .
Search being made for the vessel, the
raider passed from the Atlantic into
the South Pacific, and then headed
from the South American coast toward
the Marquesas, in the vicinity of the
equatOr. She captured the ship A. b.
Johnson Captain Peterson, bound from
Villa Harbor, Washington, TO Newcas.
tic, on June IA. Owing TO the lumber
cargo aboard, green, the vessel would
not burn readily, and shells were fired
into her, and dynamite exploded aboard
and she was left in a burning and sink
ing condition. Shortly afterward the
schooner otilhe Fjord escaped, the cap
tain seeing the burning A. b. johnson,
spread his canvas and got away. -,
Disguised as Norwegian p.
The See Adler has two four inch guns
aboard, and crew of sixty-eight men,
twenty Of whom speak Norwegian. To
keep up the Norwegian disguise she
had Norwegian flags painted on the
stern and Norwegian books and phono-
graph records were carried in the cabin.
Albert King, formerly first officer of
the See Adler, now in command of the
Luteee, has a brother, mother and sis.
ter, so Captain Smith reports, residing
at Youngstown, Ohio. ". .. s.. =
The commander of the See Adler,
Count Luekher, is a prisoner of the
British at SuVa, Fiji, and has made full
confession OF his raiding experiences.
Captain Smith gave his statement
Yesterday to the commandant of the
Pearl Harbor naval station.