GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1918, Page 3

GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER.

THE WO.LF GETS HOME. AFTER CRUISE IN PACIFIC. RECORD OF CAPTURES. 1 AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER. J Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 26. According to telegrams from Amster dam, Berlin has officially announced that the auxiliary cruiser Wolf, commanded by Captain Nerger has returned from the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, with .four hundred members of the crews of sunken ships, including white and coloured British military forces. She also ,had several captured guns, and great quantities of valuable rv ai material, rubber, copper, brass, , zinc, cocoa, beans and copra' worth many millions of marks, 1" After her capture the Turritella was equipped as an auxiliary cruiser, and operated in the Gulf of Aden. She was commanded hy the Wblf’s first officer, until she encountered the British who took prisoner the crew of twenty-seven.

LIST OF WOLF’S SINKINGS. INCLUDES WAIRUNA AND MATUNGA. THE TURRITELLA’S FATE. (Received. This Day at 8.60. a.m.' LONDON, Fb. 20. The Admiralty statement in reference to the German official report that the auxiliary cruiser Wolf had returned after fifteen months cruise, says it is presumed she sunk in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the following vessels, prisonering the crews: —Turritella. Jumna, Wordsworth, Dee, Wairuna, Winslow, Beluga, Encore, Matunga, Hita'chin Marti, Igozmendi. The Turritella was an tinarmed mereantman, that was captured in February 1917 and equipped for minelaying. She shortly encountered a British warship and the prize crow scuttled the Turritella and surrendered. GERMAN ENTHUSIASM. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. Germany is enhusiastie over the “Wolf’s” achievements. The vessel tried several times to return to the North Sea, but the watchfulness of the British Ships prevented her. Finally she reached port.