German raider Seeadler successful according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 13 October 1917

An item dated Sydney the 12th reported that the German raider Seeadler (1) departed towards Germany disguised as a Norwegian timber ship. Her crew stated that they destroyed ships of a value of 8 million Lst. When busy to convert the island Mopelia into a livable environment was the island buried under the sand as result of a tidal wave.

Notes
1.. A three masts windjammer launched as the Pass of Balmaha at the shipyard of R. Duncan&Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland for account of the Harris-Irby Cotton Company, Boston, USA. in 1878, captured by the German submarine U-36, converted into a commerce raider and finally wrecked on 2 August 1917 after a successful cruising destroying 15 merchant ships.
2. Maupihaa or Mopelia, an atoll part of the Leeward group of the Society Island, French Polynesia.