THE RAIDER WOLF

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 188, 5 July 1919, Page 3

THE RAIDER WOLF

mineCLaying operations

CAPTURED MARINER'S STORY

SYDNEY, July 3. A letter has been received from Captain Rugg : commander of the barque Deo, which states that when his vessel was captmed andi sunk by tho raider Wolf, en route from Mauritius to Western Australia, he cpont eleven months as a prisoner on bomrd the Wolf. He describes the mine-laying operations of the Wolf. She left Germany wiilh. 600 mines on board, and laid 150 off . the Indian and Cape coasts1. , After capturing the Wairunai, she mada for New Zealand, where she sank three American schooners. She then laid mines off Auckland:, . and tihen in. Cook Straits.

Next she attempted' to lay some ■oil Bass Strait.. Alter getting a few down the raider was nearly sunk by some steamer, as she lay with lights out; so-she turned round and wenii full pelt A"ia New Caledonia and New Guinea, to Singapore Straits, where over a hundred mines were laid.