PIRATE SHIP’S CALL.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 April 1919, Page 6

PIRATE SHIP’S CALL.

o ANOTHER CASE OF DUTCH NEUTRALITY.

While the problem is being discussed whether Holland allowed her neutrality to be violated by Germany in, permitting German troops to pass over Limburg with booty stolen from Belgium the day after the armistice was signed, another curious—perhaps the most! serious—charge is brought against the way Holland maintained neutrality in Indian waters.

The leading paper published in the Dutch East Indies, the Nieuws van !den Dag van Ncderlandseh-India, publishes a story according to which the notorious German pirate ship, the W olf, while raiding Allied shipping in ludan waters, often called at Fakfak, Dutch Indies. The "naval authorities there cannot have ignored the fact,” the paper contends, "yet they failed to intern the ship. Had they done so, as was their primary duty, enormous loss would have been saved for the Allies.” Details about the Wolf’s sojourn at Fakfak a,rc. not given. The matter, which apparently has now come to the ears of the Dutch home authorities, is being investigated. A semiofficial statement published here says:."ln case it is true that the Wolf entered Dutch territorial waters at Fakfak, a very earnest protest will bo lodged with the German Government. ’ ’