BELGIUM.
MEETING OF BELGIAN PARLIAMENT Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 5. The first meeting of the -Belgian Parliament since the war began has been arranged to be held in Paris this month.
THE WOLr 6 OPERATIONS.
WIRELESS MESSAGES CAUGHT. MAIN OBJECT MINE-SOWING. Copenhagen, March 5. Captain Benson, interviewed, said the Germans desired greatly to dash homeward with the Hitchi "Ylaru, thus securing her rich cargo of copper, tin, rubber, and tea, but they reluctantly decided to sink her owing to the lack of coalThe bread on board the lgotz Mendi was not limited and was excellent, Donevan, a New Zealand jockey, acting as baker. The Wolf caught all wireless messages, enabling her to avoid danger, including several armed British transports. A sailor among the Igotz Mendi's captives states that the Wolf had four torpeod tubes and seven 9in. guns, all hidden so as to make the Wolf appear like a cargo stsamer. She carried 500 mines. Her main object was to mine various points overseas-
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5
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