TWO GERMAN RAIDERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1917, Page 2

TWO GERMAN RAIDERS.

IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,

SEVERAL BOATS CAPTURED

TTIE BOSEDALE A VICTIM

rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

(Specially passed by the Censor.)

WASHINGTON, Oct. G. It is officially announced that two German armed raidors are in the South Pacific. An Entente warship is searching.

Tho Navy Department has received a report from tho Oommandor at Tutuila' Island that the master of an American schooner has arrived there wi'tli threo men from Nopoha Island. Tho master states that tho Sedadler captured his vessel on July 17th and also captured two American schooners, the A. B. Johnson and tho Manila. Tho Sea Adder was stranded and abandoned during August, tho rifles ana supplies being transferred to a motor sloop. Tho Sea Adder’s crow on September 9th captured tho Lutece from Tahita. The Germans left 27 whites and 17 naives from the Lutece marooned on Nopeha Island, where the men are in great need of food and water. Every effort ir being made to relieve them.

It is stated the one victim of the raiders was the schooner Rosedale from Sydney. CAPTURE OF THiK SEADDLER. THE FATE OF THE W-ATRUNNA. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] WELLINGTON. This Day. Tho following has been delayed by the censorship, but is finally passed for publication: SYDNEY, This Day. News has reached Sydney steamer Amara, with a' body of Fijian Constabulary aboard, captured in tho Fijian Group, an armed motor boat containing six Gormans, who acknowledged themselves as part of the crew of tho raider Sea Addler. The Germans, when discovered, were lying in one of the outlying island of the group.

When ordered to surrender they gave in willingly, thinking the A- . • was heavily armed, and wore disgusted when they found it was otherwise, particularly as their own launch was fitted with a small gun and machine guns. . Tho prisoners boast of being aboard the Sea Addler when sho sank the Wairun:V, tho orw of which were sent to Chili.