In the same month the cruiser _Geier_ fled the approach of the British and found refuge in Honolulu harbor. Her commander, Captain Karl Grasshof, made the mistake of keeping a diary. That document, which later fell into the hands of the Navy Intelligence Service, revealed a complete disrespect for the hospitality which the American government afforded the refugees. The _Geier's_ band used to strike up for an afternoon concert, and under cover of the music, the wireless apparatus sent out messages to raiders at sea or messages in English so phrased as to start rumors of trouble between Japan and the United States. The _Geier_ was the source of a rumor to the effect that Japanese troops had landed in Mexico; the _Geier_ gave what circulation she could to a report that Germans in the United States were planning an invasion of Canada and was ably assisted in this effort by George Rodiek, German consul at Honolulu; the _Geier_ caught all trans-Pacific wireless messages, and intercepted numerous United States government despatches. Captain Grasshof also spread a report quoting an American submarine commander as saying he would "like to do something to those Japs outside" (referring to the Japanese Pacific patrol) provided he (the American commander) and the German could reach an agreement. This report Grasshof attributed to von Papen, and later retracted, admitting that it was a lie. Grasshof's courier to the consulate in San Francisco was A. V. Kircheisen, a quartermaster on the liner _China_, a German secret service agent bearing the number K-17. Kircheisen frequently used the _China's_ wireless to send German messages. On December 8 occurred the engagement off the Falklands, which resulted in the defeat of the German fleet. The _Karlsruhe_ within a short time gave up her aimless wanderings and disappeared. In February the _Glasgow_ avenged herself on the _Dresden_, and the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ and the _Kronprinz Wilhelm_ fled into the security of Hampton Roads for the duration of war.