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Story of Raider Seeadler. Thrilling Adventures and Rapine Unequalled in Annals of History. Washington, November 10.?The full story of the cruise of the German commerce raider Seeadler has been obtained by the Navy Department from Captain Haldor Smith of the American schooner R. C. Slade, and three other mariners who landed at Tutuila in an open boat September 29 after being marooned on Mopeha Island by the master of the Seeadler when the raider grounded and was abandoned. The Seeadler, formerly the American ship Pass of Balmaha, belonged to the Boston Lumber Co., and was in the Nova Scotia trade before the war. After the war broke out she was put under the American flag and was captured by the British and a prize officer was put aboard her with inof rlint i ane f a lol/n t a Lp<mL IIIOV1 UV.VIUIIO IV ItiUV, IIC1 IV I\1I XV ? wall, Scotland. On the way, she was captured by a German submarine and sent to Bremen and fitted out as a raider. A picked crew was placed aboard, some of whom spoke Norwegian, and sent out into the Atlantic under the cruise of a Norwegian ship. The ruse worked so well that after leaving Bremen on December 21, 1016, the Seeadler was held up by the British auxiliary cruiser Highland Scot, examined and passed. Sailors' identification books issued by the Norwegian government were furnished the men, although they probably vere taken from captured Norwegian vessels and given to the men who seemed to fit the descriptions given. These, together with pictures of Norwegian kings and queens, gave the ship the appearance of a Norwegian. Captain Smith learned that, while cruising in the Atlantic, 1.3 ships, valued by the \ Germans at 60,000.000 marks, were captured, and four in the Pacific, the R. C. Slade, the American schooner A. B. Johnson, the American schooner Manila and the French schooner Lutece. Relating the story of the capture of his ship, the Slade, Captain Smith said: "I left Sydney on April 24, 1017, and proceeded without any incident until the evening of June 17, when I was in latitude about 2 north and longitude 150 west. On the evening 1 of June 17, about 5 o'clock, the second mate reported to me that a ship was firing on us. I went on deck and looked aft, and instantly, as I came on deck, they fired again, and I saw the shell fall short about two miles. She was about eight miles off. There was a heavy squall starting to east- j ward?wind favorable to this time? 1 and I thought it possible to get away and kept holding on. Hut she kept firing on me at intervals of about five to ten minutes, and was coming up on me fast. "The ninth shot, fired about 6 o'clock, struck very close, passing the ; poop and splashing water on the ship. Then I concluded that there wasn't any use, and I lowered down spanker, < clewed down topsail, hoisted American flag, and hove to. About 7 o'clock I the raider was up alongside and asked ] what ship. I told him what it was, and he told me to lower down sails, i and stand by, and he would send an ( officer aboard me. Shortly after, the < prize officer came aboard, and a doc- : tor and about 10 men. These officers were in uniform. They told me to i leave the ship and to go on board the raider, and they would give me time in the morning to pack my clothes. "They took all our men aboard the raider except the cook. Next morning I went back on board with all my : men and packed up. We left the ship with our belongings, June 18. We i were put on board the railer again. ; Shortly after I saw from the raider i that they cut holes in the masts and i placed dynamite bombs in each mast 1 and put fire to both ends of the ship ? and left her. I saw the masts go < over the side and the ship was burn- , ing from end to end, and the raider i steamed away." 1 Captain Smith said the raider was a full-rigged ship of steel or iron, about 2,"00 tons, propelled by oilburning engines. Her captain was Felix Graf von Luckncr, Active Captain-I.ieutenant; the First Lieutenant, Alfred Kling; I'ri/.e Officer, Richard I'less. There also was a chief engineer, a nfcvagating lieutenant, a mate and a doctor. All told, her complement was 08 officers and men. Mounted between decks, she carried two 1-inch guns (10.5 centimeters) < and two machine (runs. The name on her how was Irma. When the men from the Slade arrived aboard the raider they found nine prisoner.* from the American schooner A. B. Johnson, of San Francisco, captured three days before. On July K, Smith stated, the schooner Manila was captured and dynamited after the 10 officers and men had been taken off. Aboard the Seeadler, he said, was a Hollander who had been taken off the first ship captured and was kept aboard because he had made an insulting remark to the captain about German money. For about three weeks the raider kept beating up and down looking for passing ships. Meeting none, they went south to Mopeha on July 31, anchored on the lee side of tl island and on August 2 the ship wj driven hard and fast ashort. Tl three American captains had j*oi ashore with the German officers ( a picnic, and the prisoners were le on the ship. Cannons were fired tell the party the ship was in dange but when they returned they foui the propeller twisted on the cor reefs and the vessel beyond hel After working all afternoon th< gave her up as lost and took asho everything they could move, includir the boats, near* and wireless. Tl wireless puuu, a powenui one, w: set up between two cocoanut tree It was equipped with sending and r ceiving apparatus and without dif culty they were able to hear Paj Pago, Tahiti, and Honolulu. On August 2.3, Captain Smith r lated, the German officers fitted i and armed a small boat and start* for the Cook islands on the Fiji i lands, where they hoped to capture i American ship and come back for tl crew. Count von Luckner, the ma ter, was in charge. They were nev heard of again at Mopeha island. After their departure, wireless me sages in code from PagoPago to tl American consul were intercepted ai the German crew believed the Coui had been captured. On September 5, French trading sdhooner from Pi pette, the Lutece, put in at the i land. First Lieutenant Kling took motor boat and machine gun at captured the ship. She had a larj cargo of flour, salmon and beef ar a supply of water. Kling and h crew dismantled the wireless pla: and left the island in the Lutece thi night, leaving 48 souls, including tl Americans, the crew of the Fren< tradeer and four natives of the islan Scant provisions, and bad at tha were left them. Besides these, th( found a few eocoanuts but the grcj number of rats on tlji island d* strroyed them. There was plenty < fish and turtles. A small boat had been left behir and the marooned men fitted it u The captain of the Manila with a sma crew started out in the boat for Tah ti on September 8. They failed 1 reach Tahiti and returned exhauste on September 1(5. Captain Smith wit three men took the small boat ar managed to reach I'ago Pago ten daj later. Captain Smith said that after tt Seeadler was abondoned. the Germar used dynamite to destroy the ship masts so that passing vessels migl not sight them. They were unabl to sink the Manila as she was loade with lumber and the derelict now pro! ably is a menace to navigation. A (hough the Seeadler may be a wrecl it is possible that her guns still ai in position to use. Forty-four persons still are o Mopeha island, but Captain Smit said they were not in immediate dar ger of starvation. There are turtl< and fish on the island, he said, and tt water( while brackish, is not dai gerous. The only danger, he said of sickness. One man had gangrer when he left. Some medicine was lef but he doubted that the survivoi knew how to use it. Recent dispatches indicate that th captain of the Seadler and five of h: crew were captured on September 2 o(T the Fiji islands by Fijian cor stabulary. What became of the me who left Mopeha island in the Lutec is not known. Thousands Left Destitute By Saloniki Fir Saloniki, Oct. 30.?(Staff Corn spondence of The Associated Press ?There are 70,000 fire sufferei camping out in tents in and aroun Saloniki, with the British and Frenc military authorities and the Amer can Red Cross taking: care of them. . tour of these relief camps gave a opportunity to see the extent of mii ery and want of these poor peopl and the efficient relief work bein :lone, chiefly by the British, as the have the largest stock of availabl supplies, with the Americans an French also doing: their share. The Dubular camps where 2,50 people are being: cared for by tli British and the American Red Cros was the first one visited. It is tw miles back of the city, on rising: hill which the Bulbars thought to tak when they made their first rush o the city. I /\ iVin no mn urn nnccr */n L11VJ way me v am}; ??v |/noov the British supply base, and had a opportunity to see the vast reserv< the British have laid in, in ammun tion, food and charcoal for the co months ahead. Nothing could ha\ shown more clearly that the Britis like the French, are here to stay. 1 munitions alone the stacks of shel extended for a mile along the roa and as far hack as the eyes cou see. In the engineering park thei were acres of wire, curved ste trench covers, and lengths of narro\ gauge railway, ready to put togethe as children eonstruct a toy railwa The stock of charcoal being laid is prodigious, for there is no inte tion that the Tommies shall aga be cold while in their trenches a? dug-outs. Endless trains of pai mules and camions circulated throuj, this supply base, with the bustle ai E We Wisl in For the ul We have been givei P* 4.1 A 1 1 J jy tiicit we nave soio re Wholesale Prices h; tanburg, Columbia we feel no small de^ es; both the Quality of : My Stock ip id sin ???, The Style is I S tie id nt ( a a" IVIain St. sa ^?? id " *e roar and overhanjrinpr cloud of dust id of a colossal enterprise, is At Camp Dubular, where the refunt tfees are quartered, a city of white at tents spread out for half a mile over tie the level plain. They were the reg;h ulation British army tents, drawn d. from the bip: reserve base. They it, were laid out in regular streets and ;y cross streets. Everything was scrupat ulously neat, with British soldiers on e- guard to see that order and proper sanitation was maintained. "We have to do it all ourselves," id said the commanding officer of the p. camp, "for singularly the refugees til refuse to do a stroke of work for i I We will I THAT EA No \ THAT is "* le .a' We are all proud i and being part and pa ie ? is We are proud and ii for the wonderful resoi ?- combination of which " Our Cause It Is Just." UNCLE SAM will In these strenuous e no branch of the gover ?_ are cooperating with t >. show pride in his perso s edge of the strength a d h As long as we own ?- and we will build your A terials. REMEMBER?"W e; better suit to your meai y can buy one ready mad OUR s, For $2.50 additions :e suit or overcoat. This the values range from ,(r| Order y^ur Suit n( ?s a large number of nev i- plete line of woolens. id ? N ^ id i to Expres Liberal Out < ri this season. Our libei I GOOD MERCHANDII ave brought to us many and intermediate points free of honest pride over : Our Merchandise and tl of Men's Clothing. Hats and Caps Right, The Quality t Is Our Effort lo Serve eJ. CO Tire House of themselves. When their supply of 1 fresh meat came we asked them to shoo the flies off it, but they would i not keep their own food clean unless 1 paid for it." l The refugees are grouped in the : tents by families, five to a tent, with army cots. They are a very wretched \ lot, who lost everything in the big i fire which destroyed Saloniki. There | are many old women and children 1 and over 200 nursing babies. i At the baby's nursery Red Cross nurses were bathing the infants, with . Boy Scouts as helpers. Not a baby i had died, and there is little sickness 1 despite the unusual camp experience < [ show th< /ERY AMERK vembe WKSGr ind thankful of being under reel of our wonderful nation thankful of the fact that our iirces and wealth of our count will without question bring show the Hohenzollerns and times, it is our idea to foste nment for which we have mo he government and with the nal appearance. We know th nd power of our magnificent goods at the old price, we ar winter suit or overcoat at pr e please you and keep $ou p sure and according to your de e. PRICES STAR' il you are entitled to an extra extra pair of pants will be th $6.00 to $12.00. 3W so that you will have it fo 7 cloths for our Thanksgiving Let us measure you today a TU . COLU TAILOR] 4 Main Street RUSSELL L. SEX s Our Gral if Town Pair al buying of Printers Ii SE at Prices Lower tha new customers, custor to say nothing of hom< the fact thrt we have tl le strictly Low Prices v , Men's and Ladies is Complete is Right, The Prices Faithfully Our Patrons. HEN, Satisfaction the infants are going through. Food for dinner was being issued i as the party passed. Each family 1 had a card showing its number and 1 needs, and only one member of the family is recognized in presenting s these card^t! Their holders jwere 1 gathered in long lines, men, women ^ and children. The British furnish a < ?ood part of their army, rations, and 1 the American Red Cross adds rice i and beans. < Dr. Edward W. Ryan, head of the American Red Cross here, took the initiative in starting these camps, < which now represent one of the larg- i est relief works of recent years, i e German :an is thei: >r 29th yiNG the folds and protection of t and government. Flag has never known defeal ry and the strength and man us VICTORY. "Then Conq Prussians that every AMER r.. economy, conservation and re respect than Mr. Hoover's people in urging every ma: at by so doing he will have a country and nation. e going to give our customei ices way below the market vz (leased, no matter the cost.". sires out of better material fo r AT $15. i pair of pants of the same cl ie means of saving you the cos >r the Thanksgiving holiday. : showing, these are in additic coat for the occasion. IE MBIA. ING CO. . Union, S. C. TON, Manager litication onage ik, and the fact m the prevailing ners from Spar3 patronage, and ius demonstrated ve are asking. ' Shoes, ; are Right. Union, S. C. While the conflagration was still raging, he had set up soup-kitchens, and within 12 hours of the start of the Fire he was feeding 2,500 people. The military authorities, British ind French, came in later, and the vork has been kept up ever since, kvith British, Americans and French :ooperating. The problem now is vhat to do with this army of destiwinter sets in and the cities of tents 'jin nn Inntrpr ho inhohWn/l After a man has been married long jnough he can tfell you that a woman will worry over the fact that she has lothnj? to worry about. i Lords R PEER! is DAY ;he Stars and Stripes t and we are thankful hood of our men, the uer We Must, When ICAN is their PEER. 1 efficiency. There is i and we feel that we n and young man to t all times the krrowlrs the benefit thereof due of cloths and maWe will make you a r less money than you AO loth or grade as your t of an entire suit and We have just received >n to our already com