THE GERMAN RAIDER.
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED. (Oiir Special Correspondent). ."." Wellington, Fell. 27.' 'The', official'..announcement of the ret!!wi"tb.Ccri',,a'.nypf the raider recently in Hie' Pacific confirms various items Si information tbnt have conic to hand durin'i*;'¥ho' last "fey months. The naval anfherifir-.- Jmv'i-' suspected for some time that (he crews of the lost steamer.'. Wainnia mill Matrnge. were not dead, hut merely .captives in the hands of the enemv. and thev sent a confidential notice to next of kin in this country statin? ihat there war. a possibility of tho men being 'live. It is not-known yet if the raider was responsible for the disappearance of the pv-expln-ing oliin Aurora, which went in Ausfnlia after bringing men from the Antarctic, sailed for a South American port and has not been heard of since. The name of the Aurora dors not appear in the cabled list of tho vec't-plu sunk by the raider. There js strong reason for believing that the raider was resnonsible for the taviii." of mines in New Zealand and Australian waters All the information in the possession of flicnnthnrities on this point cannot be published at the present time. . One of the questions naturallv asked is how th" raider managed to operate for mapy months without its presence becoming definitely known, as' in the ca,°e nf .the Kmdon earlier in tho war. The policy of- the Herman captain seems to InVff been to sink every.vesjel he overtook and retain the crews aboard his own craft, but as a matter of fact he was not always successful in his chases, There have been references in American newspapers .to steamers which were in touch with a raider, but managed to escape.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 2
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279THE GERMAN RAIDER. Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 2
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