Word: seeadler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain of the "Seeadler" has been making a lecture tour of the United States on what he calls a peace mission, as he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday at his apartment in the Copley. "What difference does it make what country we come from?" he said. It is the politicians who make the wars, not the people. What's the reason of hatred? An American mother and a German mother, they all suffer the same. The American God and the German God are all the same God. All of us are his children...
Count Felix von Luckner will recount his raiding expeditions in the Seeadler during the World War at a luncheon of 250 Union members at 1.10 o'clock this noon...
...assassination at Sarajevo found him an officer in the Kaiser's navy, but it was not until 1916 that his voyage upon the auxiliary cruiser. Seeadler took him through the midst of the British North Seas Fleet into the Atlantic shipping lanes...
...wines so that they protested against being set ashore, how he fled on his armed schooner through the ice floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would...