THE SEA WOLF’S CAREER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11477, 4 March 1918, Page 5

THE SEA WOLF’S CAREER.

HUNTED IN AUSTRALASIAN WATERS. PLUCKY JAPANESE CREW. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.' Copenhagen, March 1. Further details of thelgotz Mendi are given by the prisoners, who state that after the Wairuna wag captured the Wolf cruised for weeks, hunting between the Kermadecs and Australia and capturing and sinking a number of vessels. They seized a benzine schooner off the New Uuinea coast, enabling them to replenish their 'seaplane’s stores. The capture of the Matunga gave the Wolf great quantities of food. The raider thou went towards Java, laying a train of mines. She encountered aud'attacked the Hitachi Warn, which was carrying a cargo of copper and rubber of great value. The surprised Japs fought pluckily, losing twelve seamen before surrendering. Several British steamers were seen on the 24th of January, when the IgOtz Mendi was in the Gulf of Mexico. The German crew prepared to sink the Igotz Mendi, but Susaeta, a Spanish first officer,, threw all the bombs overboard. The British steamers passed unsuspectingly. Susaeta when courtmartialfed admitted throwing the bombs overboard, and declared lie could not allow the ship to he sunk while the women and children were aboard. Susaeta was locked up till the Igotz Mendi stranded. ONE OF THE WOLF’S VICTIMS. Copenhagen, March 3. The raider, Wolf, captured the Hitachi Maru on the twenty-sixth of September. Fourteen of the crew and two Indian passengers were killed in the fight. The Wolf sank the Hitachi Maru on the J7th November.