The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-16
BY EDGAR c. MIDDLETON.

ny EDsAN -. mADDAH
TIME cruise Of the Moewe. the
German armed sea raider. was
- one OF the great romances OF
the war. Beating her way stealthily
up and down the seven seas, hunted
necessarily by the navies Of all the
allied Powers, the Moewe skunk from
port to port, harbor to harbor, from
one uncharted island in mid-ocean to
another-an Ishmael of the high seas,
all mems hands against her, and her
hand against all men.
BY brilliant subterfuge and super
human effort, she eventually succeeded
in breaking the allied blockade and
making q German port. Her voyage
was crammed with mishaps and ad-
ventures, some startling, some almost
unbelievable. The story OF them Is
set down by Graf Nikolaus zu DONNA
Schlodien, her commander, In diary
form, as follows:
November 20, 1916-Morning sees an
innocent cargo steamship proceeding
on her way. This time ! thought we
should not get through quite so easily,
but the first day passed without
British ship being sighted. To-day
our second day out, We are pretty far
north. Still no sight hardly seems
credible. had at first planned to go
very far north. but now I will try and
break through by the shortest route.
I should save at least five days-and
what days. The most important point
is to pass the danger zone during the
night, and / have determined to try
and break through.
November 26-29-Right out In the
Atlantic, and very dirty weather.
(They try to get the ship as little
damaged as possible, and so make no
real progress for three days.)
November 30-At last we can pro-
ceed, and with the wind astern OF us
we steam south at full speed. TWO
DAYS later we are on the first steamer
track.
December and 2-On the evening
OF the list we stght the first column OF
smoke from a British vessel, but be-
fore we are near enough to stop her
It has become so dark that 1t does not
appear advisable to do so. We drop
back, letting the vessel pass ahead OF
VI.
During the night we get up steam
again and turn on our lights so that
at daybreak the British vessel sees
steamer coming UP and suspects notn-
ing. We first have rather closer
look at her-a fine steamer. fitted with
wireless. too, so that We must be care
[,,I Oh hoa q
structure aft: a gun evidently, and OF
pretty considerable calibre.
Following the time-honored pro-
cedure I approach to about 400 metres
and then down go the false sides. and
we hoist the German ensign. 1t Is
evident that We have been successful
in surprising her completely. never
theless she tries at first to get away
As the warning shot has no effect ano
her gun is being manned we open fire
This has the desired result. She stops
and her guns crew quickly disappears
while we are lowering. the prize
boat the cheeky beggar not only makes
another attempt to escape. sbut SENDS
out a wireless call for assistance. SC
we give her a good gruelling. She has
soon had enough OF it and lies quite
still
I'VE find she is the Voltaire, $500
tons, bound for America in ballast
She has a crew of 1875. We are moi
we'll pleased at this; half the accom-
mediation for passengers will be taker
up She is bigger than any
shin sunk on the first cruise.
1.-THE Moewe picks I'D the Noltaire':