ONCE THE WOLF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 7

ONCE THE WOLF.

A NOTORIOUS RAIDER. NOW. A PEACEFUL TRADER. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Mune 17. Probably the most interesting arrival in Wellington for some months past, the- French steamer Antinous drew alongside Queen’s Wharf this morning irom Dunkirk, via way 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 the world. Not only did she sink many vessels by gunfire and internal explosion, but the mines she laid in Pacific and Australian waters, wrought havoc far and wide, and her name came to be feared throughout this portion of the Southern Hemisphere, for the Antinoos was formerly the Wolf, which one day was reported to he within sight of Wellington. On her last trip to Wellington info pi nation was discovered which madd it quite certain that a change of names had taken place and that the Antinous was Teally the. Wolf under new colours. Structural alterations by the Germans concealed places where four 4-inch guns and two torpedo tubes were situated, and when the vessel was handed over to France under the reparations system there was no trace or clue to her former identity, only in the fact of an autographed log book of the r&ider\s adventures being found on hoard was the whole interesting story revealed.