A PROWLING RAIDER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 9

A PROWLING RAIDER

(MANNED BY SEE ADLER'S MEN. The San Francisco "Chronicle" of December 22 states The French schooner Lutece, with sixty of tho crew of the. German raider See Adler manning her, is prowling off the South American coast. This was the information brought by passengers on a liner arriving from Papeete and other South Sea ports. The whereabouts of tho Lutece has been a mystery since the Teuton "pirates" set sail in- tho vessel last August, leaving about, forty Americans marooned on Mopeiia Island.

Henri Ernest Grand, of Papeete, owner of the Lutece, was a, passenger on the liner. Grand and othors said that tho Lutece was sighted by Captain A. .E. M'Ponald, of _ the brig Geneva, off tho coast of Chile in Octo•bor. M'Donald was familiar with the appearance of tho schooner, having seen her many times at Papeete. He said there could be no doubt ho had been in danger of capture by the Germans. • The skipper was so apprehensive of the ■intentions of tho strange vessel, which was only a few hundred yards away, tiiat he got up' all the steam possible oil the donkey engino to resist any invasion with steam and hot water. He said he intended to rain the sohnonor if the vessel was brought near his ship. Night came on and the suspected raider disappeared in the darkness. Grand was questioned by agents of the Department of Justice on his arrival, ns ho was at one time nfjent of a German firm at Paneetc. His standing was established, and he was not detained. ITo hod a son in th» French Army, who has been decorated for hraverv. and two daughters attending school hero.

A French journal states that it has been found that flies have a great objection to the colour blue, and if tenements infested with flies are washed with a blue instead of a white wash, flies will desert the place. In support of this the following instance is reported, says tho "Taranaki Herald": —A farmer had 170 cows housed in different sheds; they were pestered with flies, but he observed that in one shed, the walls of which were a blue lint, the cows were not worried. Ho therefore added a blue colour to the lime with which he washed the buildings, and from that time the Hies have deserted tho place. The following formula is used by him for tho wash: To 20 gallons of water addodT.olb. of slacked liine and lib. of ultramarine. The washing is done twice during the summer.