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...begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When...
Simultaneous with the nativity of rotoring in the U. S., the gigantic Count von Luckner, famed German sea-raider in wartime, declared he would spend two years circling the globe in Herr Flettner's Buckau, "to make rotorships known in all countries...
...Heart Raider. Agnes Ayres proceeds through this picture as a society siren against whose heart of gold other hearts, of lesser, masculine metal, shatter themselves by scores. Then one day in walks a misogynist. On board his yacht heart-of-gold meets heart-of-iron...
Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
...port, the passage requiring 12 days instead of the customary 10, due to the course taken as laid down by the British Admiralty. Nothing eventful occurred during the trip through the war zone, but extra precautions were taken when nearing America, as a wireless was received that a German raider was working along the coast...