TWO GERMAN RAIDERS

Evening Star, Issue 16550, 9 October 1917, Page 3

TWO GERMAN RAIDERS

IN SOUTH PACIFIC. OFFICIAL NEWS AT LAST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, .' It is officially announced that two German armed raiders are in the South Pacific, and an Entente warship is searching for them. The United States Navy Department received a report from the commander • at Tutuila Island (Samoa) that the master of an American schooner had arrived there with three men from Nopeha Island, and the master states that the Se* Adler captured his vessel on July 17, and also captured two American schooners—-the A. B. Johnson and the Manila. The Sea Adler was stranded and abandoned during. August, the rifles and supplies being transferred to a motor sloop. The Se.i Addler's crew, on September 9, captured the Lutece_, from Tahiti. The Germans left 27 whites and 17 natives from the Lutece marooned on Nopeha Island, where the men were in great need of food and water. Every effort is being made to relieve them. It is stated that one victim of the raiders was the schooner Rosedale, from Sydney. It is believed that the Wairuna was also among the victims.

[The above message from Washington, bearing no date, was specially passed by the Censor.] CAN IT BE THE DEUTSCHLAND? The German commercial submarine of tho above name, which created a sensation last year by her journeyings from Bremen * ?°f °^ n ports and back > is now reported to have been converted into a w.y submarine, according to Copenhagen advices. She has now a much greater radius ot action, and has been fitted with six torpedo tubes. It is asserted that her mission is Pacific waters, with the object of intercepting British-American traders to ban Francuco.