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Something connected with the expedition had to be called "Luchs," so, failing the Hitachi, the pup rejoiced in this name, and as he frequently made the saloon so exclusively his own, it was often appropriately named the "Salon de luxe." Poor Luchs!
About this time I experienced a little trouble with one of the German sailors. Most of them were courteous and kindly disposed, but one, a boorish, loutish bully, who served us with drinks at table, was a painful exception to this. His name was Fuchs: we sometimes called him Luchs, by mistake, of course! But Fuchs did not think so he strongly objected to the other name!
The fact that she had sunk an American ship on the high seas opened up still another diplomatic controversy between Germany and the United States, which cannot be treated here. When she left Tsing-tau she took as her crew the men from the German gunboats Tiger and Luchs, and had their four 4.1-inch and some of their one-pounder guns as her armament.
Had the Hitachi arrived in Germany, she would have been rechristened the Luchs, the name of a former German war vessel with which the Prize Captain had had associations. The Igotz Mendi had left Lourenço Marques on November 5th, and was due at Colombo on the 22nd.
Totals 172,700 5,082 Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 5 Panther, gunboat Shelled 900 75 Aug. 6 Koenigin Luise, mine layer Torpedoed 1,800 70 Aug. 7 Augsburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,280 158 Aug. 9 U-15, submarine Shelled 400 12 Aug. 27 Kaiser Wm. der Grosse, aux. cruiser Shelled 14,849 30 Aug. 27 Magdeburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,478 200 Aug. 28 Ariadne, protected cruiser Shelled 2,620 200 Aug. 28 V-186, V-187, destroyers Shelled 1,290 100 Sept. 14 Cap Trafalgar,auxiliary cruiser Shelled 26,000 14 Sept. 15 Hela, small cruiser Torpedoed 2,000 10 Oct. 17 S-115, 117, 118, 119, 4 destroyers 1,660 193 Oct. 20 S-30, destroyer Ran Ashore 400 ... Oct. 25 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Oct. 30 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Nov. 4 Yorck, armored cruiser Mined 9,350 226 Nov. 7 Jaguar, gunboat Shelled 330 50 Nov. 7 Luchs, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Iltis, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Cormoran, gunboat Shelled 1,600 100 Nov. 7 Tiger, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov 7 Taku, destroyer Shelled 280 26 Nov. 7 Ruchin, mine layer Shelled ... ... Nov. 9 Emden, protected cruiser Shelled 3,540 200 Nov. . . Wilhelm der Grosse, battleship Mined 10,790 400 Nov. . . Hertha, cruiser Mined 5,569 200 Dec. 8 Scharnhorst, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 764 Dec. 8 Gneisenau, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 700 Dec. 8 Leipzig, cruiser Shelled 3,200 280 Dec 8 Nurnberg, cruiser Shelled 3,200 256 Dec. 10 Three submarines Shelled 1,200 36 Number of vessels lost, 38.
In the Red Sea the northeastern monsoon, which here blows southeast, could bring us to Djidda. I had heard in Padang that Turkey was still allied with Germany, so we would be able to get safely through Arabia to Germany. "I next waited for information through ships, but the Choising did not know anything definite, either. By way of the Luchs, the Königsberg and Kormoran the reports were uncertain.
But the place was so dirty and uncomfortable, and difficult of access, in addition to it being in darkness, and quite unprovided with seats, that most of the prisoners preferred the crowded little saloon. Luchs was provided with a swanky kennel for the cold weather. The Spanish carpenter contrived it, and it looked like a small model of a Norwegian church painted the Allied grey!
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