I ARE YOU A SLACKER? I
1 I
i You didn't go to war. But do
5 KS anil KiiV twinH- . 5
FIGHT OR PAY
I If you didn't go to the front,
stay at home and buy a bond.
!
VOL,. LiVII. NO. 17,TG0.
PORTLAND, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEU 24 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
UP-STATE DISTRICTS
NO WOODEN SHIPS
PACIFIC IRISHMAN
SEEADLER VICTIM
REACHES PORTLAND
FRENCH TROOPS
SMASH THROUGH
OLD JACKSONVILLE
FIR FftiTPR WIMP
CAN'T BE CITIZEN
WANTED ABROAD
LEAPS TO FAME .' "'"1..
ARE BOND LAGGARDS
PLEAUb FDH LltStK I Y
FRENCH AXD BRITISH SERVE
ALLEGED "SLEEPY" VILLAGE
W. G. HURL SAYS HE WOULDN'T
XOTICE OX BUILDERS.
OUTRUNS OTHERS OF COUNTY.
EVEN FIGHT FOR HOME.
M
IP mmu,
& wvrwv V
Portland Apparently
Will Do Its Duty.
TOTAL REACHES $12,000,000
Wallowa County in Limelight
With Cities Going Strong.
SOME REPORTS LACKING
Jlravy Subscriptions Announced, In
cluding .5250,000 by T. R. Wilcox.
Strong Full All Around I'rgctt
to Tut Oregon to .Front.
OFFIftW. SntMVBY OF LIB
KRTV J.OA DRIVE.
rnrtlaad KfinkH.
Previously report ed . . '. . 4. TV. 950
Reported yesterday..... 997.5R0.
4
Total $6,433,500
Ranks Outside Portland.
Previously rpportpri .... $3.3S1.0ftO
.Reporter! yesterday..
250.400
Total
Official total. ..
Unofficial total
..$3,631.40
.$10,058,300
.$12,000,000.
Vpstate subscriptions to the second
Jlbrty loan wilt have to jump consid
erably if the desired minimum of $18.
000,000 13 rachd by Saturday night.
Oregon's original quota was set at $16,-
fno.ooo, but the committers are now
aiming at th larger amount.
Jt in felt that Portland will do Its
full duty; but the state at large la
laggard. Today '-the unofficial total
Vnocking around the 512,000,000 mark.
J?ut there a re only four days remain-
ing, and In that time J 6,000.000 must
he raised. The official total last night
van only $10,066,900.
There are many bright spots in the
Plate where the citizens are maklnp
great progress In the loan, but in other
sections the situation is far from being
satisfactory.
Twelve Cities on Honor Roll.
Twelve cities have exceeded thel
fluota, "Westfall, Lakevlew, lone. North
Bend, Carlton. Kcho, Paisley, Heli
Bend, Moro, Jacksonville and Seaside
having this honor.
Three cities in. Wallowa County, En
terprise, Flora and allowa, are on
the honor roll for having subscribed
70 per cent or more of their quota, and
every town in I-.ake County has over
subscribed its allotment.
Iendleton beads the three cities hav
Ing quotas exceeding $r00,000. Salem
and Astoria coming next in order.- Of
the five cities having quotas from
fL'50.000 to $r00,0O0, Medford, with 7
per cent, is at the head of the list,
while Jackson County leads all South
ern Oregon. l.incoln County is at the
head of the Coast counties, with Clat
(Sop second.
Grant County Pledget! Quota.
TcMlnn ville yesterday reached a
total of $138.000,, and Knterprise pre
dicted it would reach $10,000 last night.
Kcho attained the total of $17,250 yes
terday. From Canyon City came the news
yesterday that Hrant County would
take care of its quota. North Powder
advised headquarters it would raise
$.10,000. Tort Orford has subscribed
$r750, with $2000 more in sight that
will be collected there. Douglas County
has at last perfected a precinct organ
zatlon throughout, with J. H. Booth in
charge of the county machine.
Some Reports Lacking.
But from other sections come reports,
or no reports at all, that spread gloom
at headquarters. A long pull and
strong pull is needed to put the loan
over, and Orecon will lag behind. It is
predicted, unless the outside counties
make a. wonderful showing of results
between now and Saturday night.
Although last night's official total
was only a trifle more than $10,000,000,
It is reported, unofficially, that sub
scriptions totaling $1,000,000 will be
announced at the noon meeting today
of the. distribution committee.
X. B. Wilcox raji $300,000.
. Theodore B. "Wilcox announced sub
scriptions yesterday to the amount of
$500,000, half for himself and half for
the Portland Flouring Mills. This In
creases the investment of the Ladd in
terests, who hold a two-thirds share in
the Portland Flouring Mills. The Ladd
& Tilton Bank previously took $100,000
of this issue of liberty bonds, the ladd
estate another $100,000. and yesterday
the Iadd & Tilton Bank announced an
additional $100,000 subscription on Us
own account. This makes a total of
1600.000, which did not appear in the
fllcta! figures yesterday.
It is also believed to be conservative
that there are subscriptions of state
hanks outside of Portland to the
amount of at least $500,000 that did not
appear In yesterday's figures, so that
52,000,000 may be added with safety to
last night's official summary as certain
to appear in the total today.
Banks Heavy Buyers.
Emery Olmstead announced yester
day that the Northwestern Bank would
6ubscr.be for $200,000 In bonds today.
Total subscriptions of the. Bank of
California, N. A., now amount to
S1.0S1.750. t
High school teams that are taking
Board Says Order Regarding War
Zone Limit Is Mistaken, but
Right to Commandeer Held.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Oct. 23. The French and Brit
ish governments, through their high
commissions now in Washington, today
sent word to representatives of various
Pacific ICoast shipyards to the effect
that they are no longer in the market
for wooden ships. The British an
nouncement conveyed no jexplanation.
The French mission explained that it
would contract for no more wooden
ships because of the government policy
of commandeering, . and because the
Shipping Board has forbidden wooden
ships to navigate through the war
zone.
At the Shipping Board rooms the ex
planation was offered that' the French
mission has misinterpreted a recent
ruling, which bars sailing vessels from
the war zone. There has been no or
der barring wooden steamers from the
war zone. It is true, however, that the
Shipping Board declines to waive its
right to commandeer any and all ships
built in the United States for foreign
order, and this policy of the uoara
seems to have put an end to the award
ing of contracts by foreign buyers,
and especially by the allied govern
ments. Representatives of Pacific. Coast
yards are hopeful of inducing the Ship
ping Board to modify its ruling so that
yards having no Government contracts
may take contracts from foreign gov
ernments, provided such work will not
interfere with work on United States
Government contracts.
10 ALLIED NATIONS MEET
Red Cross Bazaar Committee Reports
Satisfactory Progress.
Committees representing 10 allied
nations met last night and reported
excellent prorresa in the plans for the
allied bazaar to be held in the public
Auditorium the first week in Decern
ber for the benefit of the Red Cross
of the various allied nations.
The bazaar will last four days. Every
day and night will have its own series
of dances and special entertainments.
Each' of the allied nations will be rep
resented at the booths, at. which
trinkets, souvenirs and miscellaneous
objects of value contributed by promi
nent. Portland folk will be sold.
The nations which will participate
the bazaar and their representatives
at last nights meeting are: America,
Victor Johnson; Great Britain. R. W
Blackwood and Mrs. E. T. C. Stevens;
Italy. Mario Montrezza; Japan, T.
Nakaya; France. Dr. E. F". Tucker; Bel
glum, Mrs. George Schmidt: China. Leon
Jew Hing; Armenia, Carrozian Bros.;
Roumania. Stephen Negoescu, and Rus
sia, Leonid P. Fink.
MEATLESS DAYS REALITY
University Students Help in Cam
paign for Food Conservation.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Oct. 23. (Special.) Meatless days,
wheatless days and the minimum use
of fats and sugars on all days is the
programme in nearly all of the fra
ternities, sororities and other places
where students eat, at the close of the
first week of the food-saving campaign
on the University campus. Seven of the
eight sororities observe at least one
day each week when no meat is served.
All of them do without wheat one day
and one house has set aside three days
when no wheat products appear on the
menu.
At the men's dormitory and in most
of the fraternities both of these foods
have a day when they do not appear
on the table.
DOZEN RATTLERS KILLED
Man Stamps Out Poisonous Snakes
Xear Eugene.
EUGENE. Or., Oct. 23. (Special.)
Twelve rattlesnakes were killed by H
Chezem, a resident of the Spencer Creek
Valley, near Eugene. Sunday. Chezen
found the ' snakes out on the rocks
sunning themselves.
These snakes were formerly quite
common In that region, but it has been
many years since they have been killed
in such large numbers in a single den.
HOPS BRING AIR OF HOME
Oregon Engineers in France Help
Harvest Familiar Crop.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 23. (Special.)
Some of the Oregon boys with the Six
teenth Engineers in France feel much
at home, according to a letter received
from Linus Lindley, son of J. -E. Llnd
ley. of Eugene.
Lindley states that the members of
his company have been assisting in
picking hops and the harvesting of
other French crops.
KENTUCKY SHORT OF COAL
Representative Cantrill TTrges Mine
Operation at Bayonet's Point.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Kentucky's
blue grass region, on the edge of one
of the richest coal fields in the coun
try, virtually is without coal. Repre
sentative Cantrill. of Kentucky, today
told the Fuel Administration.
Urging Immediate relief he argued
that if necessary the Kentucky mines,
where there were recent strikes, should
I be operated at the point of the bayonet.
German Lines Broken
North of Aisne.
HEAVY DAMAGE IS . INFLICTED
More Than 7500 Prisoners and
25 Heavy Guns Captured.
GAIN OF TWO MILES MADE
Berlin Sends Detailed Account of
J"irst Day's Battle, Acknowledg
ing Allies Advance, but
Minimizing Effect.
PARIS,- Oct. 23. In one of the
swiftest and most dashing blows of the
war, the French troops today smashed
through the German lines north of the
Aisne to a depth of more than two
miles at one point. inflicted heavy
losses on the enemy and captured more
than 7500 prisoners and 2& heavy guns
and field guns.
Several important villages also fell
into the hands of the French, accord
ing to the French War Office an
nouncement tonight. The advance Is
along a front of from eight to ten
kilometers.
Attack Made at Daybreak.
The attack was made this morning
at S:15 o'clock. After artillery prep
arations Tor several hours our troops
assaulted the powerful German posi
tions in the region of Allemant and
La Malmaison, northeast of Soissons.
Northwest of Rheims there was
rather heavy artillery fighting in the
night. .Three surprise attacks against
our small posts west of Bermericourt
and east of Neuville were without re
sult. In the Argonne an incursion into Ger
man trenches at Cheppy wood enabled
us to inflict losses on the enemy and
bring back prisoners.
On the right bank of the Meuse (Ver
dun front) the artillery action became
violent late In the night in the region
north of hill 344.
BERLIN, Oct. 23. The German offi
cial communication today says:
Fighting: I-asta All Day.
'Western Theater Army of Crown
Prince Rupprecht The fighting which
developed yesterday morning in Flan
ders between Praelbank and Poelca-
pelle lasted until toward evening. Ac-
ording to orders found, the objectives
of the French' and English attacks lay
two and a half kilometers behind our
front lines.
"The enemy, who at the beginning
bad penetrated into our defense zone
only at the southern edge of the Jlou
tholst wood, was repulsed by our coun
ter attack. Reinforcements brought up
by the enemy were not able to extend
the slight gain of ground which at the
outside was about 300 meters deep by
1200 meters wide.
'Near Poelcapelle in fluctuating
fighting our foremost crater lines were
maintained or regained, in spite of
L"oncluded on Page 4. i'oiunin I J wire entanglements I (Concluded on Page '2. Column 1.)
t BRINGING HIM TO IT.
j y. YOU SHALL MOT- fuST WHATT S ggT
Y; PUTYooR dollars Atio shal.lW rHE !rrER ?
X ABOVE THE LIVES lA Pr? ua I L -Mgg Sti T M V
iLz.r,. ..- , .
Liberty Loan Oversubscribed and
Slogan of Community Is
'Follow Jacksonville."
MEDFORD, Or., Oct. 23. (Special.)
Jacksonville, Or., will awaken tomor
row morning to find itself famous.
Today the oldest and often referred
to as the "sleepiest village in South
ern Oregon," with a population of
less than 1000, subscribed J10.700, 700
more than its quota, to the second lib
erty loan. This is the only community
in the county of Jackson to exceed its
quota. . "
With this nws today Medford, where
most of the county officials reside,
though Jacksonville is the county seat
perfected arrangements for a four-day
whirlwind campaign to land Jackson
County among the leaders of the state
by Saturday night.
"Follow Jacksonville" is the slogan
heard tonight, the little town with
quota of $10,000 subscribing $10,700.
. By proclamation of Mayor Gates all
stores will be closed in this city at
noon tomorrow, ajid the entire citizen
ship will be drafted on the firing line
to celebrate Liberty Loan day by at
tempting to break all records of the
present campaign. Medford had sub
scribed tonight $185,535 out of its quota
of $260,000. and Ashland $63,000 out of
$140,000. The total subscriptions In
Jackson County tonight totaled $284,-
735. with a total quota of $452,000,
which means that Jackson County will
have to average $o.ooo a day for the
next four days. "We can bent that,'
was the statement of W. II. Gore
chairman of the local committee, to
night.
CHINESE BUYING BONDS
Gardeners in Yamhill-Strcet Public
Market Take Thousands.
Chinese gardeners in the Yamhill
street public market are strong for lib
erty bonds. Market. Master Eastman
made a canvass of the market yester
dav and practically every Chinese
agreed to take one or more bonds.
"I have not checked up the tota
amount we will get from the Chinese,
said Mr. Eastman yesterday, "but
probably will run into several thousand
dollars."
SARAH BERNHARDT IS 73
Birthday Sentimeilw Is "America
Will Win the War."
DAVENPORT, la., Oct. 23. Mme,
Sarah Bernhardt was 73 years old to
day. Saddened but brave in the face o
her country's trials, she today expresse
her profound admiration for America.
"I am surprised at the spirit every
where. The boys who are going t
France, they I wish Godspeed. America
will win the war for France. We mus
win it."
CRAZY RECLUSE SUICIDE
Network of Barbed Wire Bars En
trance to Cottage.
CHARLESTON, Mo., Oct. 23. Benja
min Lunn burned ilimself to death
his home in this city in his secon
attempt in 12 hours at self-destruction.
Lunn was a recluse and to force an
entrance to his cottage it was neces
gary to- traverse h network of barbed
wire entanglements.
Germany Not Wen-
-mVo-
AMERICAN DOLLARS NEEDED
Haste to
Deliver Crushing
Blow Is Urged.
FOE PRACTICES DECEPTION
Reed CoIIeso President, W eleomea
by Students on Arrival From
Foreign Mission, Shows Keen
Gratification at Reception.
Germany is not weakening; her citi
zenry is not rebelling; sne
starved or near-starved; she Is put
ting forth every effort to deceive the
population as to American strength
and activity, but Is not anywhere near
exhaustion, and can fight on until such
time as this country and its allies have
force enough to crush her.
Such is the vital message brought to
Portland last night by Dr..illiam 1.
Koster resident of Reed College, who
reached the No'rth Bank Station at 7:45
o'clock last night. He had been gone
three months on an important mission
for the Red Cross to see and then see
some more, lie aia n ana win nave
special information to give out to the
people of Oregon from tune to time,
but his special message just now is that
this country and its people must throw
into the war every bit of their energy
ingenuity and finance, until the enemy
is utterly crushed, for not until then,
ho declares, will Germany and what its
officialdom represents be overcome.
Student, tireet President.
Dr. Foster was greatly surprised and
happy when he alighted from his train
and found himself confronted by com
panies of students from Reed, under
command of Art L. House and Lenore
MacGregor. They were drawn up at
attention' and, stool at salute as Dr.
Foster and his family passed along the
line.
He was given rousing cheers by both
companies, after which he responded
briefly, plainly showing how proud he
was of the students. and how deeply
pleased he was of the fact that they
remembered him thus.
Energy ltt Needed.
"I have heard a good deal of noise
since I left you three months ago,
said Dr. Foster to the companies, "but
I assure you that none of it haa been
as loud, I think, as your rousing cheers.
I have come back after viewing much
of the scene of battle in Europe, and
I must tell you that we shall have to
put into this war our utmost strength
our most enthusiastic and determined
energy if we win it; of course, we shall
win it. We must stay with it until we
have won, and meanwhile each of us
must do the full duty that is ours,
whatever that may prove to be.
"I want to say with all the emphasis
at my command that this war is the
most terrible thing that the world has
ever known and that it must be won
Native of Carrick-on-Shannon Tells
Court Taking of Highwayman's
Life Would Be Repulsive.
Spectators in Presiding Judge Kava-
naugh's court yesterday witnessed the j
unusual spectacle of an Irishman who I
admitted that he would not fight.
William G. Hurl was being ques
tioned by Henry B. Hazard. United
States naturalization examiner, upon I
p"S. nun said he was bom at car-
rick-on-Shannon. Ireland,
and Deiicvea
it the duty of every alien living in this
country and participating in the many
privileges of a residence here to become
full-fledged citizen. But when asked
if in times such as the United States
now faced he would take up arms in
its defene. Hurl said he had conscien
tious scruples against fighting for this
country or for any other country.
Judge Kavanaugh here took a hand
in interrogating the applicant, but Hurl
stood pat. Answering specific ques
tions put to hiin by the court. Hurl de
clared that, besides refusing to fight
for his country, he would offer no re
sistance to a highwayman even though
his own life was endangered and that
he would do nothing to prevent the in
vasion of his own home by a burglar
or other criminal if by doing so he
might possibly take a human life, even
though he and the members of his
family might lose their lives by reason
of his refusal to protect them.
Hurl is a married man and lives with
his wife and two children at 143 Kast
Twenty-third street North.
He was denied final citizenship pa
pers.
"FLIER" ARRIVES TODAY
'Million-Dollar Special"
Fulfills
Its Mission.
PTGKNK. Or.. Oct. J3. 'Special.)
After a dash from Bend to Eugene, the
li berty bond ca mpa ignrs in the "'mil
1ion-dolla.r spec! a 1 reached RudPiie
late tonight and will drive to Portland
tomorrow.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars is the exact amount taken in at
their meetings In liberty bond sub
srriptfons, according to Judge John K.
Stvenson.
'We fe! more than repaid for th
trip and for the actual hardships we
have had to undergo." be said. "I am
delighted to learn that every city where
we spoke has jumped away up in the
totl at liberty bond headquarters and
that Lake County is probably the first
county In the I nlted States to over
subscribe Jts quota.
"Perhaps the most affecting incident
In our trip was at Burns, where a Ter
man. who haa four brothers fighting
n the front trenches against the hIiiph,
personally came to John L- Ktheridge
and handed him $50, saying:
This is all I can afford, but it is
my contribution to hdp end the war.'
'Tears were streaming down his face
and he was terribly In earnest. We are
all tired out and shallvbe glad to get
back.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTKRDAT'S Maxium tempemature. 62
desre.e; minimum. 4 J degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; moderate westerly winds.
War.
New lino established by allies in France is
held. Fag-e
Huns nay dearly for air attack. Paa;e 4.
SlaYB stop Oermann from landing; on Kstho
nian coast. Page 4.
French troops smash through German line,
Page 1.
Half of CJermany's effective Zeppelin fleet
reported destroyed, i'age 4.
National.
Experts say weather will not halt
fage lb.
Nation today faces supreme test in liberty
loan campaign. Page 1!.
French and British notify builders no
.wooden ships are wanted. Page 1.
lomestlc.
San Francisco shipbuilders refuse to arbl
trate cloaed shop. Page 2.
Millions of pounds of sugar discovered in
Buffalo. N. s ., warehouse. Page lj.
Quantities of Canadian wheat to be milled
In united stales, i-age i.
Artillery at Camp Greene getting lot of In
struction. Page 5.
Sinn Fein leader and German Baron rt
rested In New l ork. Page 3.
Many fnen at Presidio training camp anxious
for commissions. Page J.i.
Government fixes prices on flour, sugar and
potatoes In Chicago. Page J.
Sports.
Coffroth never had any Intention of staging
championship fights at Tla J muia.
Page 14.
Oregon-Marines football games expected to
draw uig crowd. page
Columbia and Jefferson elevens tie, 7 to T.
Page 14.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 7.
Los Angeles 3: ban t ranclsco 4. uaKi&na
0; Salt Lake 7. Vernon 6. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Prinevllle welcomes Federation delegates.
Page 15.
Old and "sleepy Jacksonville becomes
famous over nlgnt tnrouga uoeriy oonas.
Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
British Columbia, expects large quantities of
Australian wheat. Pago 19.
High-grade rails and utility stocks decline.
Page 19.
. . Portland and Vicinity.
Victim of Seeadler In portiana. page x.
Peace talk angers Colonel Dlsque. page in
Threats fall to move Mayor Baker. Page 20.
Pacific Irishman denied citizenship, page i.
Women's liberty loan committee reports
good progress. page
Offer of telephone company not acceptable
to linemen. page e.
Choice of adjuster next step in nipj
.Itiiatlon. page .
Oregon loan subscription by towns listed.
Cnuntrv d strlcts laggaras in ju.-
chases. Page x.
Portland will parade lor imerty xouay.
Pare 7.
Portland jobbers say no sugar shortage here.
TU.A 1 .1.
t wnTn.n traces husband and children
tn Pnrtlunil Page 1H.
Strenuous wind-up planned for liberty loan
r.mnaica. Page in.
tw returns from European mission.
Page 1.
Nephew of Portland man victim of Antilles'
IriUinr. Page 13.
First of new Klaw & Erlanger plays here
November X Page 19.
Weather report, data, and forecast. Pago !.
Thrilling Experiences
Are Recounted.
LOSS OF MANILA DESCRIBED
Death by Firing Squad and
by Hunger Faced.
RAIDER'S FATE WITNESSED
Charles Thompson, in Quest of New
Berth, Declares Officers Ridi
culed America's Entry Into
,Mar as Inconsequential.
That peace with Russia, if obtain-
ble, would more than compensate
Germany for entry of the United States
into the war was the declaration of
officers and men of the German raider
Seeadler. according to Charles Thomp
son; a sailor, wlio was a memoer 01 ino
crew of the American schooner Manila.
sunk by the raider July 8.
At the same time they expressed
themselves as preferring to be cap
tured by Americans rather than by
Japanese or French.
Mr. Thompson, who is in Portland
looking for another deepwater Derm,
eaid the, Germans ridiculed the pros
pects of the Americans even getting
ny men across, declaring their trans
ports would be sunk.
Death Sentence Passed.
Held on the raider for weeks, then
landed on an island where he was tnre
days without food, though abundant
stores of provisions were there in plain
sight, and then experiencing two Ions?
trips in an open boat in an endeavor
to reach refuge, were ' among Mr.
Thompson s experiences, wnue once nj
was sentenced to face a firing squad.
because he had fished wunoui permis
sion, but he talked himself out of this
predicament. - -
It was February 2Z. 1S1T, tnat .-ir.
Thompson left the coIumDia rtiver on
the schooner Manila and In all his sea
experience. " which dates as far bacK
as 1SS6 on this Coast, he Bays he never
saw so much crowded into a tew
months as the changes encounierea
after the Manila had loaded coal at
Newcastle, sailing May 25, and shaped
her course for Honolulu, when the
Seeadler was encountered in the Pa
cific. Other known Pacific victims of
the Seeadler were the schooner
Slade, which left Sydney April
R. C.
4 for
San Francisco, and
the schooner A. B.
Johnson, which lert lliapa iiaroor
May 14 for Newcastle.
British "pooled" Twice.
The history of the Seeadler since the)
war, as gamerea ay .ui. xnv,iiw"
by bit on board after his capture, ap
pears to have had its humorous siae
when it is considered how she served
to fool British vessels on two oc
casions. According to the story the
vessel, then known as the Pass of
Balmaha, was bound for Europe with
a cargo of wheat, when picked up' by
a British patrol and a prize crew waa
placed aboard, being ordered to a
British port. But on the way she waa
intercepted by a German submarine,
which took charge, placing another
prize crew aboard and making the
British sailors prisoners, the course of
the ship being laid for Cuxhaven..
There she was outfitted, apparently
by the Hamburg-Apierican line. Judg
ing from stencil marks on equipment,
and an eight-cylinder Diesel engine,
was installed, though it was so large
only four cylinders were used. With
that. Mr. Thompson says, she could
have made 19 knots, but it was too
powerful, so her maximum speed
was 14 knots. and at that the
vibration was racking. He says the
engineroom had . skylights arranged
like many others, but a false Irame
work had been arranged to place about
the skylights on deck so it resembled
the amidshlp house of au ordinary
squarerigger.
Cargo la "Csmeoflage."
Leaving Cuxhaven December 1. 1916.
she was to all Intents and purposes a
Norwegian sailer, having the name of
Seeadler, which corresponded to the
name of anotner that left a Nor
wegian port about the same time.
Christmas day, when off Scotland, her
officers said she was boarded by offi
cers and men from, a British cruiser.
They were taken to the quarters aft.
served a yuletide drink and, after a
short visit, during which a picture of
tne visiting, group was taken and later
exhibited to Thompson, they went over
the side. The ship was then painted
with her name in large letters on the
side and apparently she had a deckload
of lumber, but it was said the lumber
was only a partial deckload and beneath
it were guns and barely room beneath
the lumber for men to man them.
In "the crew were 16 picked men, all
speaking Norwegian and posing as
sailors, while the skipper was a former
merchant master, named Prize. In truth
her company numbered 64 men and the
others were hidden, below when tha
British officers were aboard. To carry
out the Norwegian deception even a
phonograph was played with Norwegian
records.
Before reaching the Pacific th
Seeadler sank 13 ships, four of them
being steamers. One of the sailing
tCoacludea, ou Pi Avi. Column 1