GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDER.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14648, 28 February 1918, Page 5

GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDER.

THE WOLFF'S EXPLOITS.

ENTHUSIASM IN GERMANY:

Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, F eb 2 e. dam, Berlin officially announce that the auxiliary cruiser Wolff commanded 7 Jy Captain Nerger, returned from the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans witl, 400 members of crews of sunk ships ■including white and coloured Brit.'i military forces, also several capture*! guns, great quantities of valuable raw material, rubber, copper, brass, zinccocoa beans, and copra, worth many millions of marks.

After capture tie Turritella was' equipped as an auxiliary cruiser an] operated in the Gulf of Aden,'commanded by the Wolff's first officer, until she encountered the British, who took prisoner the crew of twenty-seven. Germany is enthusiastic over the Wolff's achievements. The vessel tried several times to return to tte North Sea, but the watchfulness of the British ships prevented her, but she finally reached port.