MISTAKEN FOR A RAIDER
INCIDENTS AT SAMOA. Smco the operations of Count Von Lucknar with the German raider See Adler in the Pacific a sharp look-out has been kept at the different island ports in case of a Burprise visit from any other raiders that might be knocking about the South Seas, bo far nothing has happened, but the port authorities at Apia (Samoa) recently, had a scare by the sudden appearance of a strange auxiliary vessel off the entrance. £ne came in under sail without a pilot, and was at first mistaken for a German raider, -the alarm was glven> the d tu out, and guns were trained "on the ar>E? ing l t -WaS a fabie al «m ) however. The incoming vessel proved to be a friendly American merchantman-* five-masted auxdiary schooner, lumberladen. The captain explained that he had put into Samoa -to replenish supplies, and these having been obtained the schooner proceeded on her voyage.
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Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 1
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158MISTAKEN FOR A RAIDER Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 1
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