ECHO OF THE WOLF'S CRUISE
LETTER PROM A CAPTURED SKIPPER. Sydney, July 3. A letter has been received in Sydney from Captain Rugg, commander of the barque Dee when 6he was captured and sunk by the raider Wolf while en route from Mauritius to Western Australia. Captain Rugg 6pent eleven months as a prisoner aboard the-Wolf,. and he desoribes the raider's mine-laying operations. She left Germany vita. 600' mines aboard, and kid 150 off the Indian and tho Cape ooa&ts. After rapturing the Waimna . 6he made for New Zealand, where she sank two or Ihree American schooners. Then-she kid mines off Auckland, and then in Cook Strait, and next she attempted to lay 60me off Base Strait. After getting a few down, the raider was. nearly sunk by some steamer as she lay with her lights out, so she turned round and went "full pelt" --ia New Caledonia and Now Guinea to tho Singapore Strait, where the balance of over one i hundred mines was: laid.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 240, 4 July 1919, Page 7
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167ECHO OF THE WOLF'S CRUISE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 240, 4 July 1919, Page 7
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