THE GABO MINES.
LAID BY 1 WOLF. CARELESS USE OF WIRELESS. LONDON, March 19. Colonel Stra.ngman and Major Fk>od, interviewed in London, said that the Wolf's accommodation was adequate for. 200, but once she carried 800, and in consequence the conditions were bad. The officers and ladies were decently treated throughout. Others, including Australian soldiers were packed in an ill-ventilated steerage, ill-fed and harshly disciplined. All. were tblcf ; that they were going to Germany. - The Germans, boasted of their exploits, including minelaying at Gaboj in the Tasman Sea, and on the New Zealand coast' and at Colombo. Major Flood states.. that the. Matunga was captured o^ing to the: interception of the owneraY U'ncoded v wireless to agents at Rabaul, a c6py of ?which the Germaris exhibited as evidence of carelessness. The Wolf 's captaiii said : "I, waited"'- a week to i^ecure this victim." The prisoners felt that they were in great peril in the NoHh Stfa," feared to beymined or .submarined, or/that the British might sink the ivessel. The German crew/ said that they .would blow up the Igotz. Mendi .if "attacked, 1 and the boats were totally inadequate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14566, 30 March 1918, Page 6
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