The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-31
GERMAN PLOT 10
. DISABLE VESSEL
LEARNED IN TIME:
Atlas, En- Route To Philippines,
- Pots Into Honolulu With
Engines In Bad Way
EMERY POWDER FOUND
'."'' IN TIE FUEL TANKS
Was Formerly Hun Craft and
Captain Believes Hun Crew ID
Planned 10 Wreck Her

o,,t f,o,,, On a, Fiso n s,s,.o o,,routa IN tho
u,.,,..,,.....-.I -. g., uol,,,, 90.
",'p t'l RSii'es' " P"' '"'o 'O"o' ~
terday AFTERNOON, according 10 the s'"ts
ment of the master, Captain Bernhardt
Emery powder IN large quantities wa
! d;scnverad In tho Anal tonLs and Il i
49, ,.,..s a - - -, 49,. -.
'"e o'iiei VI '"e o'n0e'S VI INC 'o''e
hat 1t Was placed there by the torme'
German crew, the Atlas beng recently
Germantvess =
The emery powder, discovered by'the
1hiet engineer, was EXHIBITED 70 the
| 1ePresentanyes' Of the naval lnteih'
genee bureau who boarded the Vesse
IN ner arrival =
While the vessel was far to the south
OF the Hawaiian Islands, scnddln9 along
Hneer began to experience trouble VIII
his engines Because the Atlas was
f"rmeriy'sa ,6erman vessel, he became
suspicious and after eonsideranle IN
Vestigatlon ioeated the cause IN the
ing up part OF the contents direct IRON S:
c" v Ssdso =" NV r'' e'' p' 80
| -. a.. u,-su
OOn.P~'e 1oos WING
hbogt this time, the only real com
pass 'aooaru' became disabled throug'
the glass cracking. investigation re-
Vealed that the weather becoming
amer ahd warmer each day the yes
sci progressed toward her destlnauon,
ne mound IN tine tube expanded, ana
riSlng 'IaPidy tne toree caused tue
Siass % preaE ingenious methods methods were N,
USED py the captain, engineer ana Prac
tically everybody aboard, to stop "
the gap, even wood alcohol being used
put each gay the glass cracked and IN
i compass became comparatively uSeIes
- means OF navigating the vessel OF
true course.
Tnen, 10 cap the chmax' captain hen
bcrnhardt. VINO mas sahed the seas
SINCE boyhood, was suddenly strlckeI
WIN sciauea rneumatlsm, which so emp
PIED MN that ne was UNABLE at times
20 GET 10 the deek, ana had TO 90 al
ms computing IN ms caDln below DECK
and give many or MS orders from hif
oun' IL
Was German, Vessel ..a.
4 1.-THE Atlas was one Of the nuflierouk
German fleet OF schooners operating IN
the, south Seas when the war broke on
i'm August. 1914 said CAPTAIN Bern
hardt. shortly after berthinp his vesse
n Pier s. "She fled across the Pacif,
with the Neptune and two or three YES
seis. Nearly all reached various Amer
lean ports where thew were interned
One of them, the Aeolus. / believe, wa
canpht nv q ,Japanese erIiser off thu
mort of Honolulu. and DESTROYED by gun
fire. s-g
I "After the United States entered the
war. the Atlas was sold first to vii
liams, Dimond & Company. and then I,
the Pacific Commercial Company. o.
Manila. She was oyerhauled and load
ed and we cleared. for Manila direct
She is to go into the Inter Island
trade over there.
1--WE were nineteen DAYS out wher
we arrived in HONOLULU today. Whe'
we were sonth of Hawaii the chief 81
yineer renOrted TO me that he had dis
covered a lot of ground emery in on
fuel tanks, which had worked inIr,
| to the earburetOr and the engine. also
1--WE talked over the situation an
"ame to the conclusion that the forme'
German crew. and officers, on outline
the vessel left this powder in the tanks
knowing that when the boat was taker
over by the Americans, that would b.
the last place any of us would belle p
there was stored un lot of trouble
for the vessel And they figured right
Phe fuel oil, leading, out of those tankF
carried the powder along and 1t got int
the carburetOr and engine peneralIr
Fortunately, our chief engineer discov
cred it in time and the damage ma
not be great. but II might have bee
extremely serious to us had we gotte'
away down in the Pacific and then need
ed our engines.
Must Clean Tanks
at l. imrarative that our tanks b..
cleaned out thorouohly and freed from
this menace, This work could only b.
done in port.
"Tbeu' lust as we reached the warm
er weather regions. the glass ton of GU
liouid comnass dna 10 the eIpansio,
hof the linuid, cracked right across
causing the fouid IN eVaporate, and