A GERMAN RAIDER.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1924, Page 4

A GERMAN RAIDER.

AN INTERESTING VISITOR: WELLINGTON, Juno 17 l’robably tho most interesting arrival in Wellington for some months past, the French steamer Antinous, drew alongside the Queen’s Wharf this morning from Dunkirk, via ports.

Her interest lies in the fact that though she is now engaged in peaceful trading between France and New Zealand, her mission in war time was to harry vessels leaving this country for the scene of hostilities on the other side of tin? world. Not only did she sink many vessels by gunfire and internal explosion, but the mines she laid in Pacific waters wrought havoc far and wide, and her name came to be feared throughout this portion of the .'southern Hemisphere, for tile Antilious wav formerly the Woll, which oiie day was leportod to he Vvithill sight of Wellington. On her last trip to Wellington information was discovered which made it quite certain that a change of names had taken place and that the Aniinons was really the Wolf tinder new colours, hut structural alterations hv the Germans ciniecsilt'd the places where four four-inch guns ainl two torpedo lubes were situated, and when the vessel was handed over to Franco under the reparations system there was no trace or due to her former identity. Only ill the fact of the autographed lag hook of the raider's adventures being found nit board was the whole Interesting stofy revealed.