Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-07-18
By LOtOeU Thomas
Copyright by
Doubleday. Doran & Co.
CHAPTER X
ID
Racing the Enemy Around
Cane Horn

| mann. you are the fellow who likes
yacht racing. BY Joe. It's to he a
race nova race to see who gels to
Cape Horn first"
We knew that, MS soon as our for
4 mer prisoners made port, the news of
our presence In the South Atlantic
would be flashed abroad. Then the
British would send their cruisers on
the double-quiek down the coast nf
South America TO keep US from don-
| bling the Cape. To he sure. we had
| taken care TO give ourselves mighty
| good start. But In race of wind.
| TANNER against swift cruisers. what
| Is start Of thousand miles or so.
| With decent weather. we had hopes
| OF making IT, So far we had fair
| winds and had made good time. But
the most difficult stretch of sen In all
| the world now lay before US. The
| storms for which the Horn is famous
often delay sailing ships for weeks
"And them" responded Leudemann
"even II we do get to the Cape before
any cruisers that may be sent down
from the North, they may have
cruiser or two nosing around al the
Pacific end of the Straits. Unless we
round the Horn before those chaps
reach Rio. the Jig may he up"
Just south Of the Falklands we
caught a wireless from a British
cruiser, a warning message TO allied
merchantmen.
"Steer clear Of Fernando Nnronha
German cruiser Moewe reported
there"
"Moeve" means "sea gull" In Ger.
man. Hail TO you, far-distanl Sen
Gull, may you fare as we'll on your
warlike flight rs we hope to fare In
our Sea Eaglen
A feeling of Inconsistencies for the
old MueWe came over ne, us II does
over any sailor at the mention of a
ship on which he has sailed. NV
service aboard the Moewe had been
neither long nor eventful. bur already
she had made for herself q heroic
reputation. have always regretted
that | was nor with her Oh her raids
She made several, Slipping out
through the blockade. sinking guam
titles Of allied shipping. and stealing
back into German waters.
She was built Just before the war.
and originally designed 10 curry the
exotic banana from southwes Africa
and Ger it.n East" &c Hamburg
Plans had Just been made to food
Germany with them. Her sister shin,
In the banana trade was the Wolf.
and she. too. became famous
raider.
All manner OF ingenious devices
were invented In fitting out the
Moewe for her career as raider
She was altered so that she could dis
guise herself ana change disuises
while steamina al full speed just like
a quick-change actor One day she
would be q three or two flnneled
steamer, rhe next she would look like
Slow tramp with one funnel Tie
line of her deck could hL changed In
few minutes also. She also had
raised or lowered In few moments
by means Of fake section that
slipped out from her stern One DIV
she would De tramp, the next. with |
fake bnlls'-eyes. n liner. These start
ling metamorphnses were a great sue.
cess and enabled her to dodge mnny
an allied cruiser
or course, the British soon got Oh |
to the Moewe's quick change hahts
and were not to he fooled by them
TN one OF her adventures the Moewp
was trapped off the eastern cuusi Of
South America The British cruisers
Glasgow and Amethyst were warned
by wireless that the Moewe was steer
Ing south from Fernando Noronha to
take coal So they rushed out from
Rio de JaneIro to trap ipr Present.
~ the Glasgow spotted the Mopwe on
the horizon. The German ship had
on one of her innunerahe DISCUSSES
and the captain of the Glasgow could
not recognize her He was wary
however, and on 10 the alopwes
tricks. SO he wireIessed her IN sfund
by 10 be searched The Moewe turned
and ran south. The Glasgow could
mike twenty-five knots and easily
OUTRAGE her The Moewe was well
armed with guns and @turpedups and
would fight, but she would he no
match for an arinored ship. The men
aboard the Muewe seemed as gnud
as al the bottom OF he sea. The
Glasgow knew that the fleeing ship
must be the long-soughf-for raider.
AMI prepared to sink her
The two ships steamed with strain
ne boilers. and The Glasgow was fast
creeping up on the Moewe. When al.
most within range The hunted raider
ran into one of those sudden rain
squalls that sweep over the ocean
LIKE the Biblical cloud If hid her
rom the pursuing cruiser OF course.
he Glasgow followed her into II
squat, BuT as The Moewe ran
through The swrling storm. she
1assed another steamer. this one
ifeamlnL north. Tile cruiser snw
amprnEu. from fhp Sultoli THE ytn,p