RAIDER PROWLS PACIFIC.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16048, 5 February 1918, Page 8

RAIDER PROWLS PACIFIC.

MANNED BY SEEADLER’S CREW. The San Francisco Chronicle of December “3 states; Thoi T reach schooner Lutoce, with 60 of the crew of the Gorman raider Seeadler manning her, is prowling off the. South American coast, was the information brought here yesterday by passengers on a liner arriving from Papeete and other South Sea ports. The whereabouts of the Luteco lias been a mystery since the ■ Teuton “pirates” set sail in the vessel last August, leaving about 40 Ameri- | cans marooned on Mopeba Island. j Henri Ernest Grand, of Papeete, | owner of the Luteco, was a passenger ; on tho liner. Grand and others coming from the Tahitian town said that tho Luteco had been sighted by Captain A. E. Milouald, of tho brig Geneva, off the coast of Chile in October. M'Don- 1 aid was familiar with the appearance of tho schooner, having seen her many times at Papeete. He told friends there could bo no doubt he had been in danger of capture by tho Germans. Tho skipper was so fearful of the intentions, of tho strange vessel, which was only a few hundred yards away, that he got up all tho steam possible on the donkey engine and planned, to losist any invasion with steam and liot water, lie said he intended to ram the schooner if tho vessel was brought near his ship. Night came on and the suspected raider disappeared ill the darkness. Grand was questioned by agents of tho Department of Justice on his arrival, as he was at one time agent of a German firm at Papeete. His standing was establish id, and ho was not detained. He has a son in the French Army, who has been decorated for bravery, and two daughters attending school here.