OTHER VICTIMS.

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

OTHER VICTIMS.

SINKING OF THE MATUNGA

OPER^ITIONS IN AUSTRALIAN

WATERS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Feb. 28, 0.35 a.m.)

London, Feb. 27

The Wolff's next victim after capturing the Igotzmendi was the Matunga, "with a valuable cargo. The British crew were taken on board the Wolff, and apparently were treated well.

The three ships then proceeded to a desert Dutch island, where part- of the Matunga's cargo was; stored, but the most valuable part was put into tho Wolff. The Germans then sank the Matunga with a bomb.

The next victims were the Beluga and the Hitachi-Maru. The latter's crewbeing Asiatics, and the Wolff being overcrowded, a number of the prisonex-s were transferred to the Igotzmendi. A prize crew were also placed on the Hit-achi-Maru and were ordered to captum a coal steamer, but they did not suojCeed. On her return the Wolff sank I the Hitachi-Maru.

The Wolff was then near the coast of Australia, and the captain decided to return to Germany.