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Show 10 LIVES LOST 10 . GREAT DAMAGE 001 Refugees Tell of Bombard ment of Papeete, Tahiti, k by German Cruisers SAN FRANCISCO Oct Two ves were log $ 000,000 damage was done two vesse s vefe s nk and two bock of business louses and residences were estroed by the German cru sera Schar horst and Gne seDau tn the r bombard ment last n ont of the French, co ony of Papeete Tah t Refugees from the is and to d he story on their arrival here today aboard he Un on Steamship compan s 1 ne. Moana, from Austral a wh c twuched Ta utl J e dead were one native and a Jap anese chauffeur w o was cut in two by a s el while bnnQ as h s car down into lown from the 1 ills or another load of refugees - No landing: was made, and no supp es or stores were captured The French Tset fire to a 40jOOO-ton coal p e to pre ne t the Germans replen shins their bunk e s AVlien the Moana left the natives had ,ot yet returned from the hilU Modern" eheU fire waa something new to them end the whites who w tnessed the bom fcardnnent d d not blame them. There -were almost as many accounts on board the Moana of what had hap perwd as there were passengers but the preponderance of testimony was that the French fred the first shot from a h 1 side for Otherwise, t was thought the eettlemeut wouW not ha e been bon barded, although undoubted y the F ench gunboat Zoleo would have been sunk The two Germans ho e in s ght fly ing no flab, about n the morning ran the' compos te narrati e of the pas Fengers, In t e arbor were j ng the Fre ch gunboat Zo ee and the German me chautman Wa kur e the Zo ee s prize Ant paring the po s b itaes of a ra d the French had s r pped the Zo ee and mounted her .grins aslvore. As soon as the strangers were recog n zed the fo t opened fire. The 3er nans m mediately hoisted their battle flags a d began a hot reply Within easy ra ge they would swing and fire, fire and sw ng b oadsida after broadside No h ng o the is and was of weight to ma ch tl eir e 0ht Inch rifles. W e es mated that in all more than 100 e g t nch shel s fell tn the town, besides be-sides a rain of sraal er projectiles from the secondary bat eries He ng quite defenseless the crew of tl e Zo ee scuttled for shore at the first shot and lucky for them that they did Not long afterward the little gunboat be gan to s nk riddled with ho es. Her prize, the Waikurie, flew no flag and tl e Germans ignorant of her nat ona ty and that her crew were prisoners on the is and sank her too The bombardment laFted about two hours The houses surrounding the American consulate o er which the S ars and Str pes was flying conspicuous y were not damaged but -the waterfront and in er cant e district were utter y wrecked Thatch and bamboo houses do not offer much resistance to artil iery About 10 o clock the Scharnhorst and Gne senau steamed off to the westward undamaged so far as we could see. The f re from the little French fort had been feeble and fal en short. fwc da s before the Moana reached Papee e her wireless operator picked up code signals which he now supposes to have been conversation between t e two German cniisers Apparent y they stll were lurking in the arch pelago Beglnn ng last Friday when 1400 ml es off shore, the Moana again p ked up German wire ess code Saturdav and Sunday it grew fa nter and Mondaj t was no longer aud b e The Moana s of f cera believed the Germans were draw g away to the southward and t iat ey were not the Scharnhorst and Gne senau but the Nurnberg and some other na ship possibly the Le pz g wh ch mlgh have turned northward s nee she was la t reported off the coast of Chi e |