Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-05
NAMES AND ENTRIES COVER
PAGE OF LITTLE NOTEBOOK


PAGE OF LITTLE NOTEBOOK
There are just a few names and
some other entries. dates. which cover
hardly more than page and a half
pages no bigger than those Of the little
books they sell postage stamps In.
Here Is tho record:
juno IA. b. johnson.
juno l7-Sladc.
July 3-Manila.
July 3i-Mophca.
August ashore.
August 23-First boat leaves.
August 3I-Secadler burns.
September Wireless Page PaEo.
September 5-Took schooner and left
September 8, A. M.-Left for help.
September 16. s P. M.-Returncd.
September 10. A. M.-Lcft for Paro
Pago.
September 2s--Arrived Page Page.
Then. underneath. written afterward,
when I was putting the whole thing
together in my mind. arc these, in a
different pencil:
Left Sydney April "a.
July 22, stood south.
The note of the arrival at Pago PaEo
Is another aftcrthought; believe me.
when we made landfall there after
the ten days in the open boat. and the
hills of the island grew above the
crater harbor. and we could fairly
smell food and feel clothing that wasn't
stiR like board from the brine. we
weren't in any mood TO bother about a
record OF IL.
There arc red letter days in that list.
] could write a thousand cheers and
yet not give you 1.-THE of the joy
that came when We heard the distress
guns that told me the Seeadler.
anchored In part OF my forcthought a.
tho proper disastrous point, had
grounded. Nor could l smile now the
way did when I wrote: August "a
First boat leaves for that was the
end of the pirates commander, Count
Won Luckner, as far as We were con-
ccrned, or his cruising, either, for it
wasn't long before his motor-boat was
captured by the British and nc was
started kicking about from one prison
place TO another--Auckland by now. OF
perhaps farther.
The Johnson captured and left dere-
lict, the Sladc sunk. the Manila wiped
off tho register. the Lutecs seized =
maybe she's sim a; the piracy work,
for all VIC know, or maybe the crew
has shown itself disgruntlcd to the
point OF ending control and starting
home: all that is told in those few
lines Of writing in the notebook. and
"A great deal besides.
And yet there is no telling in what
waters they are at this minute, or
what mischief they are doing. The
Lutece. IL is true. was not much of a
craft. and ovcrcrowdcd to boot. but
the Germans armed her after a fashion.
and for desperate men. doubtless she
would serve for making capture. with
luck. and the prize boat be turned into
Il new pirate.
Here on the edge Of tho table is
to-days paper. and on the topmost
page there is a report OF ships over
due. For all VIC know, they may be
1T the bottom of the sea or slushing
around In trade lanes. derclicts, thanks
to the Lutece and it's men. The
Schooncrs Beluga. lncore and Winslow.
the steamer waittna, the japanese
frcighter Nichiso Maru-whcre are
they? And where are their officer,
and crews,
AS TO the Nichigo Maru. / doubt II
1t could have run afoul Of the raiders;
seventy-six days out from Mobe is
cause for anxiety. indeed. but tho
freighter's run was pretty far north;
from all l saw. the Germans would be
more apt to avoid the waters the Jap
anese would be- apt to ply.
Felix Graf Won Luckncr Is disposed
Of. thanks to the British, but he was
by no means the whole spirit OF the
was comparatively small
His name is the first on my list in
the diary, and queer fish he was, hold.
ing his men in check like a martinez.
and yet as easily battered, and as cross
when not given soft soap. as any little
prince in Europe.
Here is the list OF the names. as
written during the frst daye on the
Sccadlcr. when was getting &C.
quainted with the officers and the petty
officers-and good fellows they were.
many OF them. human for all they had
done and were doing, and at heart In
many cases none too pleased with
their job:
Felix Graf Won Luckner. active cap.
tain lieutenant.
Alfred King Preserve iicu,enant)
first officer.
Richard Priess. prize officer.
krause.
Iudemann.
Doctor.
King it was who proved the direct.
ing mind OF the expedition: crafty
fellow, with brains--of kind-but no
executive. lie would not he one to
abandon the campaign if he could help
it. and he was one of those who put
out from Mophea on the captured trad
ing schooner Lutece. Press went with
him. With Killing and his men at large.
there's little doubt the work is prob
ably going on.
Killing, whose mother and brother
live in Youngstown. Ohio. was. from
all that could be gathered. the man
who had originated the idea of tho
expedition. Press was formerly second
officer on the steamer Cleveland, which
used to put In to San Francisco.
Kircheis-his initials were a. E.--was
navigating officer on the Seeadler, and
Priess, who was rated in the navy
records as help officer" when he was
in the Hamburg service, was prize
officer. kirchcis was a lieutenant,
Ludemann also. and Krause first ma.
chinist engineer. IT would be, if the
engines hadn't been Diescls.
These are. in the main, the men who
figure in this account.
NAME OF DOCTOR PROVES
DEEP, UNFATHOMAB BILE MYSTERY
The doctor, however, must not be
overlooked. What his name was
couldn't be found out Tt was Soma-