Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-26
HUN RAIDER TEACHES
AMERICAN new TRICK
Captain Haldor Smith Has Thrilling
Adventure While Prison
or on Secauler.
HELP SHE'LL OWN SHIPS
German Craft Roams About Pacific
and Captures and Burns Innocent
Merchant Ships-I'inalIy Wreck
cd at Her Anchor Near Bahia.
RI CAPTAIN HALn0R SMITH,
The Lute Manter OF the American Sall-
Ing Vessel u. g. SHADE.

international News Bureau. iDc)
This newspaper herewith presents
the NTH installmont OF "Raiding in tho
Pacific" the serial writ,tn especially
for this paper by Captain IIaldor
Smith. OF San Frsncisco. describing his
experiences with ami on tho German
freebooter Secadler in the South Pa
clfic. 1T is Il sc&maR's deeds and mis-
bxps; rugged. sharp az spindrift and
brncing as the tang Of the sea; 1t has
straightforward quality. for all tho
Amusement of II, that will bring
throb TO even an inland heart. In II
there nre simply accounts OF strange
events, stories Of hardship and heroism,
episodes as thrilling US anything the
Gct on writer has erolved--and hrst
and last drawn solely from facts. OF
all the wars dn'ngs up and down the
bcen SEAS. none Is more enKrorsing than
these Captain Smith tolls about. from
tie sinking OF hts vessel to his ten
days voyage in an open boat. newly
repaired on an atoll which ended with
tho arrival Of himself and his handful
OF COMPANION couriers at PaGo Pa1o,
carrying the word that meant rescue
and life for tho shipmstes and asso-
ciates In misfortune whom he had left
behind. a thousa1d miles away. on q
tiny isIo in the heart Of the Pacific,
where even the lit,is crafts Of the
island traders were seldom seen. This
scres Of wonders such az seem all but
impossible in the twentieth century,
will BIO published in weekly Install
ments. appearing in this newspaper
pnly.l
Just to the south of the channel,
and within the entrance. was tho sand
II, nd Cnr
two feet above tho water when the
Gcrmans put their stores there. Amy
o:c with half an eye could see a hign
tide would hood IL, and that is what
happened. the wafer coming up to all
but the top layer or two OF tho boxes
and bales piled several feet high.
Tho groups ot tents we pitched on
Tho inner shore Of the main island,
three miles direct from tho sand isle.
The object Of this was to keep the
stores safe without guard--ths S, ores
Of drink and food and ammunition.
That is but one OF the many signs
we saw that tho German officers had
none too great faith in their men. who
would have liked to finish off all the
supplies and let starvation force a sur
render by wireless.
The ntores were safe indeed from
human beinEs-,hcre were no boats
except those kept under guard on the
inner beach OF the German camp.
Picture that circle of islands and
reefs. with tho sand !ale inside In the
1agocR-the main island on the north,
the great reef on the south, the chan
mel and It's smaller islands and reefs
on tho west. and the big reef and big
island coming together. where tho
corais hadn't yet finished their job OF
building. almost directly opposite. or
cas-, OF. tho channel.
In the beginning we worried over
the water question, but il wasn't long
IN nndnG there was sufficient Eupply
at hand. Back Ct each camp We dug
we'll. going down four feet or so TO
bedrock.
Why there should be fresh water
there. IN the rock Of that coral jutting
up from bottomless salt sea. is more
than ] can tell. My theory was that
il was rain water draining down. but
the Germans insisted il was salt water.
sea scepaEc, which had been filtered
through the coral. AS for that. must
admit that when there was high water
In tho salt lagoon. II was high In the
VOLS too. and tho other way round.
Tho four kanakas we found on the
island had been put there by French
conccsSionairc in Tahiti. The island
was undeVeloped producer OF
copra. The French government had
been letting it out a year at time
on speculation TO various concession
aires. getting ready. after they had
all had chance to size it up. TO call
for bids for pne.y-nine.ycar lease.
Also there were on the island soma
pigs. The kanakas' pigs.
First we'll eat the MICS and than
we'll take of tho Kanakas." Graf Won
Luckner had said on arrival-ho had
been told about them.
There were also neas. BY the mil
lion-in every part OF tho island
Sand heas-they must have been given
extra strong pincers by practicing 70,
millions Of years on that coral sand
And there were rats---millions OF
them-too. and possibly had things
come to worse pass they could have
been eaten. but we didn't come TO that
thank the Lord.
QUEER SAUERIlRAUT PROVES
VALUE AS A. FOOD
Tho coconut trees were amazingly
thick-eo thick that they weren't good
fruit producers, and the island. before
being made of use by ,oncessonairc
would have to be wcedcd off and the
undcrbrush cleaned out and the rats
killed. The rats ate the young nuts
and the Germans used the same tactics
cutting down the limbs rather than
climb up TO get the coconuts. This
way. too, they got the topmost shoots
or fronts, which make an excellent cab.
base. Coconut palm sauerkraut be-
came part OF our diet.
We bad eggs too. and the Germans
again showed the relish OF them that
had worried the Shades cook so the
iirst night after the capture
What kind of eggs they were really
don't know. but they could DO eaten
and we weren't hehindhand any more
than tho Germans. They were laid by
kind of black Sull. which came ir
tremendous swarms and stayed at tht
island for three days. and then disap.
peared. They laid the eggs in TIL.
sand. and within an hour. what with
the sun alone-no hatching-the egg.
are spoiled. sand Matched.
We had to 60 in among the flock,