TALES OF A GERMAN RAIDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 132, 7 June 1916, Page 3

TALES OF A GERMAN RAIDER.

Many sensational tales have appeared in the "yellow” Press of America, and also in Canada, to the effect that some

German xaidor war i-cently sen; h muting in the Pacific Ocean fo»- trade Clips o p the Allies, but officers of Briti sh vessels plying between Vuswib'-jia. and Duwestern coast of the finDed Sla'es and British Columbia Jiacc generally discredited those lUniiuig !•••[). rts. -w, however, comes a circniu-fi: in' ha report from Seattle, stating that a (banian commerce raider, .•dlegel 1.. be ni escaped merchantman interned at Honolulu, is seeking '-prey on the North Pacific. This report originated from wireless information flashed to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha’s Sado Maru, when 1000 miles off Cape Flattery. The Sado arrived in Seattle on May 4 from China and Japan. Her officers took the report, which reached them in several wireless messages, so seriously that the vessel’s lights wore extinguished, and she made her way at top speed into the strait of Juan do Fuca with no visible evidence to other ships While the warnings were being wirelessed to the Sado Maru, the British cruiser Rainbow set out from Esquimault in search of the German commerce destroyer. Captain Gu E Stout, commander of the British Blue Fun not liner Ixon, which afeo arrived in Seattle, from Manila via Yokohama, received virtually the same warning. His message gave instructions not to answer any wireless calls that would disclose the identity of his ship, an intimation that the British authorities considered the north tran-Paciflc trade route none too safe The Matson liner Matsonia, on a return trip from Honolulu to San Francisco, also brought reports of rumours of a German' raider being seen on the course traversed by the Niagara and the Makura.Officers of the Moana and Maitai, when last in San Francisco, professed ignorance of any raider in the Pacific Ocean.