Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-31 | Page 6 | Last of the Raiders

LAST 01 THE RAIDERS. Count von Luckner, the commander of the German raider Seeadler, and five members of his crew have been captured by tho Fijian constabulary and another incident of the war has . been closed. Von Luckner sanlc three American Amer-ican vessels in the Pacific ocean before be-fore his own ship was wrecked and he had previously sent down sixteen vessels ves-sels of various types in the Atlantic, so as a commerce destroyer ho goes into enforced retirement with a pretty fair record. lie was in hard luck to be captured by the Fijian aistabulary after being chased over two great oceans by ships of the greatest fleets on earth. But such is war. Today a general gen-eral may wear the laurel crown of victory; vic-tory; and be acclaimed all over the world as a second Napoleon. Tomorrow his bubble may burst and some other warrior war-rior be awarded the palm. Von Luckner Luck-ner knows how it is. Ho was a great raider while he lasted, but the Fijiaus gathered him in and that' is the last of him until the autocratic ruler of Germany -is humbled and the future mado secure. The only, satisfaction he will have is the faet that he quit the raiding business with a whole skin.