ARMED RAIDERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 5

ARMED RAIDERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ATTACKS ON SCHOONERS AMONG THE ISLANDS - .By Telegraph-Press ./Usociajtfoiirpopiriplit (Rec. October S, .5.5 p.m.) . ' ' The following 4iepateh La's been refcased'Ky. tW;COTsor.jr Washington, October 6. It is officially announced that two German'armed raiders arc in'the South Pacific"' One of the'Enteiite's warships is searching. for them. . The. Navy Department has received a-report from the commander at Tutuila, Island that tho 'master of ail American schooriei* lias arrived tlioro with threo men. from NukiKiwa Island. '^e~mast«r.'statek^that!tho .German raider Seo Adler captured his' vessel''on 'July 17, ari<Tals6'raptured tiro American; schooners—tho A. B. Johnson and 'the"Manila." '. . The See Idler'stranded, and had'to be abandoned, during August, her riilos and'supplies ' being trdnefeired .to a' motor sloop." " The See "Adlers orew'o'n" September 9 Captured the Lutece, from Tahiti. Ths Germans left' t^enty-S'even"Vhites "pnd seventeen natives from Luteco marooned on- Nukihiwa Island, where the men are in great need of food and water. Every effort is being" made .to relieve them. " It is stated that 6ne victim, of the raiders was tho schooner Rosedale,. from Sydney. It'is' that* the Union Steam Ship Company's Wairuna'is also among the victims.' ■ ,