SEA ADLER'S CREW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 6

SEA ADLER'S CREW.

SAID TO BE MAKING FOR JAVA. RAIDERS KEING FITTED OFT. The members ol the crew oi the Gorman raider Sec Acller, which sank a number of vessels in the Pacific, and eventually became n total loss on Mopehn Island, arc still at liberty, Information lias been brought to Sydney that 62 Germans from the rai'i- • )• have been reported making for the Solomon or Gilbert Islands in a white painted schooner ol about 1-10 tons register. It is believed that the vessel is leaking badly. Unless the raider's crow succeeds in trapping a bigger vessel, it is considered certain that she will finally make for Java, :i Dutch |Ws*ession, where the men will be interned. Mr YV. M. Milne, vice-president of the Import and Export Co., oi Eos Angeles, who spent five months in Biilavia and Singapore and other ports, Mated, on being interviewed in S'an Francisco, that commerce raiders have been fitted up in the East Indies and sent to the South Pacific Ocean. "I vas told by. British officials at Singapore that they had reports that at least three ships had been fitted out," .said Mr .Milne. "The representatives oi the British Government were watching matters v>}vy closely, but as the suspected raiders were not being prepared in waters controlled by the British no direct action could be taken."