Configuring mybatis to skip JDBC failures caused by /*… */ style comments in SQL scripts – Debian

I’m trying to load the Wikipedia dumps (for example, this one), which are a series of .sql scripts, into an SQLite database via the org.xerial sqlite-jdbc connector and MyBatis, but it appears to be failing on some /* … */ style comments at the beginning of the file with the following error:

 org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.RuntimeSqlException: Error executing: /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */
.  Cause: java.sql.SQLException: not implemented by SQLite JDBC driver
    at org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.ScriptRunner.executeLineByLine(ScriptRunner.java:159)
    at org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.ScriptRunner.runScript(ScriptRunner.java:119)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.DatabaseConnector.loadSQLFile(DatabaseConnector.java:120)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.DatabaseConnector.loadSQLFiles(DatabaseConnector.java:67)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.KnowledgeEngine.loadWikimediaDumpsIntoDatabase(KnowledgeEngine.java:155)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.KnowledgeEngine.call(KnowledgeEngine.java:119)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.KnowledgeEngine.call(KnowledgeEngine.java:1)
    at picocli.CommandLine.executeUserObject(CommandLine.java:1933)
    at picocli.CommandLine.access$1200(CommandLine.java:145)
    at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.executeUserObjectOfLastSubcommandWithSameParent(CommandLine.java:2332)
    at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2326)
    at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2291)
    at picocli.CommandLine$AbstractParseResultHandler.execute(CommandLine.java:2159)
    at picocli.CommandLine.execute(CommandLine.java:2058)
    at com.tracesemantics.knowledgeengine.KnowledgeEngine.main(KnowledgeEngine.java:93)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: not implemented by SQLite JDBC driver
    at org.sqlite.jdbc3.JDBC3Statement.unused(JDBC3Statement.java:387)
    at org.sqlite.jdbc3.JDBC3Statement.setEscapeProcessing(JDBC3Statement.java:382)
    at org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.ScriptRunner.executeStatement(ScriptRunner.java:243)
    at org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.ScriptRunner.handleLine(ScriptRunner.java:223)
    at org.apache.ibatis.jdbc.ScriptRunner.executeLineByLine(ScriptRunner.java:152)
    ... 14 common frames omitted

The start of the input file is:

    -- MySQL dump 10.16  Distrib 10.1.45-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64)
    --
    -- Host: 10.64.48.13    Database: enwiki
    -- ------------------------------------------------------
    -- Server version       10.1.43-MariaDB
    
    /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
    /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
    /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
    /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */;
    /*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
    /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
    /*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
    /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
    /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
    /*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

I think these comments are intended to give instructions to MySQL databases. Given that they’re not supported by SQLite, is there any way I can configure either the JDBC driver or MyBatis to ignore these comments so that I can get the data into the database?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.