THE WAIRUNA'S FATE.
/ SUNK BY GERMAN RAIDER. Crew Sent to Chili. [electric telegraph—copyright.] [per fresb association.] (Passed by censor.) Received Oct. 9, at 10,55 pm. Sydney, October 9. News has reached Sydney that the steamer Amara, with a body of Fijian Constabulary aboard, captured in the Fijian group an armed motor boat containing six Germans who acktowledged themselves to be part of the crew of the German raider Seeadler. The Germans, when discovered, were lying in one of the outlying islands. When ordered to surrender they gave in willingly, thinking the Amara to be heavily armed. They wore disgusted when they found her real strength as th«jir own launch was fitted with a small gun and machine guns. jirisoners boast that they were fclso Seeadler when she sank the 'A niruua, the crew being sent to Chili. A message from Washington states the Seeadler ran ashore in the islands after sinking several American schooners. Tho crow transferred to a motor launch. The Wairuoa ii< three months overdue on the voyage from Dunedin to San Francisco. She was a Union cargo carrier
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 October 1917, Page 3
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181THE WAIRUNA'S FATE. Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 October 1917, Page 3
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