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GIRL STOWAWAY ABOARD SEE ADLER'S VICTIM.I'reselleo lt;1 a woman on hoard a ship which fell victim l«i llie Genilim raider, Sol* Adler, which operated in southern Pacific waters, became Known in San Fmneisco 011 Decani -l»* r 12, when Miss Gladys Taylor, 23 years nil ago, ol' Mossy Rock, Wash., admitted I hat she had stowed away 011 I ho American . schooner A. !'•. Johnson, one oT the See Adler’s captures, and had been IMr several weeks I lie only Woman among a party ol’ 120 perosns wnruoned on a desolate island.Miss Taylor arrived in San Francisco on the dale named' with thirty-live other victims of the SCt Adler’s raids, all belonging* to the Johnson and the schooners 1C. C. 'Slade and Manila.Lnvc of adventure and travel induced her to stow away on the Johnson.“ I sneaked aboard the Johnson at Willapa harbour, Washington.” sail Miss Taylor. “1 hid in the storeroom 11111 iI I felt that we were Far emmyli on I so that the vessel could not turn hack and land 1110. Captain Petersen. whom 1 had met before, look my presence on the boat .irood-rat nredly when I made myself known, and 1 was accorded all I he courtesies of a passenger.” J'-or (lie first hyeii|;y-six tla.vs or1I1 evovage everything was lovely, 'hi June 14 everything: started to happen. We were sighted by the See A dire, and a shell came hissing over us. We were all I a ken aboard the Sec Abler, and Captain Petersen introduced me as his wire. All the officers and crew of (he raider treated me kindly, ami tloiinl Felix von Jmck-v.ev. the eominander, was especiallyjiin;. ■ *....... • •- ••'* When we were landed on Al'upcha 1-1.Did I was I he only woman nmony Ihn more limn 120 men, but they nil treated me politely, and I was spared fi orn worry*”
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Mortlake Dispatch
Mortlake, Victoria, AU
Sat, Mar 09, 1918
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