WILES OF THE SEEADLER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 17 February 1921, Page 4

WILES OF THE SEEADLER.

LOVE-LETTERS AS EVIDENCE. LONDON, Dec. 16. The Berlin correspondent ot the Daily Telegraph Writes that in a lecture delivered there Count LuckI neir], Who commanded the sailing i cruiiser Seeadler, described the trickis; fay (Wihfch that vessel managed I to slip through the British blockade disguised as a Norwegian merchant ship. He did not say How 1 he c|ame by the ‘genuine tog book,’ but ho fold how all the members of the crew took on Norwegian names, and learned out of Baedeker the topography of jhe places where, they professed to have tieen born. They were also somehow furnished with photographs of sweethearts, which they had fo show os evidence that they had tteen taken at th© sailors* t'irtlhpiacete. The most difficult task was tlhe provision of love-letters, Which seafaring men are accusfomieid’ fo hoard up for years. It wasknoWn, said th® Count that the British were accustomed to take samples’ of such letters and it was therefore necessary to have thorn available. Seven men spent weeks | in doing nothing tint write such i lovei-lfettenS. . I I