Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-05

days of parching thirst, hunger, scurvy, beri beri-men counselled drawing lots that the blood of one might save the lives of the others.
 Speaking of this leg of a cruise of more than 2,000 miles, in the small, open boat, like a fox dodg- ing the hounds, Captain Kirch- jess said:
 My condition became SO bad I was unable to bend my arm at the shoulder; it was necessary, in steer ing my trick, to use one hand to place the other upon the tiller and hold it there. Some of my compan- ions suffered even worse; it was necessary to slit their trousers legs because of the swelling. Blood turns to water, and it's progress to- ward the heart may be observed by the color. Men joked as they mark ed the encroachment of the fluid which, on reaching the heart, meant death, something welcomed by all.
 we finally reached a populated island. The natives were kind. A few days of fresh fruit and vege- tables and we were ourselves again.
 But our mission called us on."
 After capturing a boat thru ruse, it was discovered that the food supply aboard was not suffi- cient to take them back to where the crew and prisoners were left on Mopelia Island. Remembering that the British had stores of sup plies based in the Cook Islands, the buccaneers put in to an island. When they sought to emerge they found the narrow entrance to the lagoon blocked by a British cruis- CT, which had laid on the opposite side of the island, neither being aware of the presence of the other.
 This was the first capture.
 When we arrived in New Zea- land, it was necessary to disem- bark up at points outside the large cities. The British had circulated propaganda, with illustration showing the "Bosches" with feat ures like hideouS beast, and bear ing impaled babies on bayonets. No wonder they were afraid to al- low us to be sighted by an over wrought populace. We were treat ed by our captors with character istic British chivalry.
 Finally they placed us on small island, with a British resident in command.
 we stole his launch, made many implements we needed, including machine gun" This was stove pipe mounted to represent a ma chine gun.
 When we encountered a prize, a sailing vessel, we drew close, brot forth the machine gun," aimed it at the rigging and one man, armed with a revolver capable of firing five shots, began firing as rapidly as such gun could fire. It work ed. The captain and crew surren- dered.
 But we were finally captured and returned to New Zealand, there to remain until after the armis- tice."
 Captain Kircheiss is completing one leg of journey which has talk en him on a nearly two years cruise of the Antarctic, South America, Central America, North America, and as far west in Alaska as the Pribilof Islands. His mission is to make motion pictures of marine animals and sea fowl, for an edu- cational picture, under the aus pices of the German Society of Science.
 Thus far he has 26,OOO feet of film, showing every sea mammal, sharks, and other marine creat- ures. He expects to complete 3O,OOo feet of film before he finishes.
 From Seward he will journey to Seattle, Portland, National Parks, Denver, Chicago, New York, as well as other cities, where he will deliv- CT addresses for the purpose of re- futing and counteracting the false propaganda circulated about the German army and navy during the