Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-14
some U-BOAT CAPTAINS
Prove GENIAL PIRATES
Intcrcsting Story of Two Who Won
Regulations for
Dcccncy.
CARED FOR SHIPS CREWS
Ono Who Owed TO Let L. S. Destroy
or PASS Over Sent Word to Conn
mandcr That Ship Had Loose Pro-
pclter Which Worried Him.
ny CLAIR PRICE.

49, : ny CLAIR PRICE.
a MEDITERRANEAN PORT. October
Ri il.-lEck SprnEuc, the American con-
sui lIcrc, doesn't believe the yarn.
;Chief-of Police Hill Cochranc. VINO
used 10. be on the metropolitan force
in London doesn't know whether 10
bclieGa it or not. Sweeney, At =
5ovs its W soSasso eT Thinks
%fit's true. Philip Imossi, OF smith.
lmosstS Co, agents for the J. \ Q.
out or here. says he can'; believe il.
But, treforc Spartci Jack came TO 4
violent death. the military police took
an old picture OF SecEei at Smith,
lnossi- & Co.'S Offices. And even. to-
day pns afer Sparte, IL Jack C has been
his story is the first story you will!
hear coming up the straits toward
,Carbonero Point and tho Rock.
So here's tho yarn. You may have
i: for-~hat it's worth.
Back in ISIS Ahert Nceke!, then
thirtSsgears Old, came mere from liam
Newa,. salvage steamer owned by
the Sprth German Salvage Associa-
asys eh she Danes s@sss anG e
business. To-day the Germans are
divide. the business under some sort
OF working agreement.
HAD big MUSTACHES AND
IoNI f'NfESsE StCoCNIS
~, NecSel was a short. puffy German
expense account. They still tell here.
OF the parties he used 70 give ship
ping Ig.ntS and steamship captains.
~ Fan across him 1T Tarifa one day,
and bEcause ] had a couple OF days to
kill E-sugsested spree at TanEierr.
ran tho Newa ACROSS to rangier, loaned
me his pajamas and financed the en-
tire party; used 20 think ho was
m
was berore we came TO know tho Ger
man for what he is
He stayed here unit, 1909. when nc
strucksa terrific gale, OF Cape ST. Vim
cent, Coming from Lisbon; Then he
showed UP at smith lmossrs and said
he T fo5 lie rsa was Esi hnS @
cidcd him. he was going to funk it.
He was then forty-five. and he left
ihe lad poa, card fa
from Kim at Marseilics. on his way
10 German: and that's the last seen or
AboA year after the war began
Spanish fisherman came here with
= story that German &C. rT1 submarine Sol had
in cemmand had told a Spanish fish
ing fclucca 10 tell the bunch that he
the oittrer in command of the subma
know =asyond any chance OF doubt that
a German submarine was working"
II, IS. a game that is Altogether too
periioIa for German submarines now,
but in. ,thosc days II became estab
lishcdsiinaliy that the submarine was
laying-.oT Cape Spartcl
CAFF;.SPARTEL Is ONE
5 CORNEI, OF AFRICA
on, tie charts. is the norihwestern
corner~of Africa. 1t juts out into the
sea juta beyond the straits, and it ar
fords n fine command OF the straits.
There as an international lighthouse
there, and i'll time the submarine that
was waiting OF the lighthouse to way
straits-rane to be known far and wide
AS SpEtel Jack, the presumption being
ha. spaF' fa- dsTE was ALERT SenKe;
wrecktag ship Ncva.
Begnnins at that point. all sorts
lei Jasis just as ail sorts 81 yarns
ciast The baron OF Tuskor up
~ r h.; --:saron Of ruskor is German
submar4ne commander whose name is
keliy.-and Tugkor is light outside
Queenstown. off which YOU were likely
to meet him he was called the Baron
of Tuskor Notwithstanding to the
yarns that fly around the wardrooms--
he used 20 send his crew ashore nj.
Ip!Eor, ana he planned. medieval
castle after the war TO raise grapes
and To,, MAKE Rhine vine in !rsland
tack ns lists OF the ships he intended
10 sinki and il be had q fit ot temper
becacSs he had Ito, wait for IN overdue
convoE he used 10 tack up mention OF
that fact also
FAILED To ATTEND
BIG MEETING; At CORK
They had big meeting in Cork one
day 10 protest aEains; The Gcrrna II
methods o. conducting submarine war
iare. ahd Kelly sent word 10 the Cork
ConSt!tntnr tha: h" was very anxious
zinc situation presented. lie would do
I, ms neSt 20 attend in person. II seemed,
ho"cNS@. inat ne waS unable 10 at
tend Ind aitcr the meeting was over,
me CONSTITUTION received long letter
IRON hin. dealing poin; hy point with
the arEun mis- which had been raised
CT the injecting against submarine war
fare.
lie .dived one morning to lie. an
Amcr!Ga destroyer PISS over him, ana
pedocd. shin. h" sen; word ashore
by ono. OF the survivors 10 tell Can
tain A. Of ,hc p that he has
=, ,oose propeller. He passed over me
thiT morning and IT worried me
f!n had running 5un-ngh. with a
+ inerrhahtmSD one day, which lasted for
2 seven hours, after which the rr.-chan y, :.
& IMAM. having expended all hi: amMu-
: nition.,sHas compelled 10 give W. When
he hadSsunk the vessel, Il. approached
Eunncrs. An American biucjaci;ct
stood IN IN one OF tho boats in an.
:Wcr TO his command. although ne tho
plNejachci, expected to nc shot az
oncs.
YOU Put NJ q good fight. SON said
the HIrcn q Tu:kor. I'll xiv. Sou "A
toy e. iand. Jus; take . line there
Blu: lhe Baron OF Tushor. for all
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