HUN'S ADVENTURES IN BRITISH SHIP.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16738, 28 August 1916, Page 2

HUN'S ADVENTURES IN BRITISH SHIP.

EMPLOYED AS LOOK-OUT FOR U

BOATS,

The "Taglishe Rundschau" gives an account of the astonishing adventures of a young German mercantile omcer ,a son or Justice Kray, of Elberfeld, who has just reached home after serving mostly in ships running from British ports to America, including two voyages to Canada as a member of the crew of the steamship Englishman, which traded between Bristol and Canada, says the Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Mail."

On the first voyage in the Englishman Kray was employed as a lookout to watch for mines and German submarines. He borrowed papers from a Danish friend and succeeded in getting a passport as a Dane from fie Bristol Consulate. When the war broko out Kray was at Chanaril, in Chile, where he had arrived in the German four-master Nereus. With two other Germans Kray tried to cross the Cordilleras on mules to reach the Atlantic coast, but was obliged to tun; back owing to the sick- | ness of his<»comrades and the death of one mule, when they reached a height of 13,000 feet. i

He tried to ship in a Russian vessel running to Europe with saltpetre, but at Iquique they guessed his nationality, and he deserted. A friendly Dane lent him some ship's discharge papers to prove his Danish natinoality, and with these Kray got employed as one of the hands of the Norwegian barque Storesand. running with saltpetre from Iquique.

Th^ vessel was overtaken by a German submarine 200 miles from the Irish coast. Kray failed to get the chance of making his identity known to the submarine, which subsequently sank the Storesand by shell fire.

The crew were picked up by a R'-ftish steamer, which took them to Bristol. Here Kray worked for a time as a stevedore, after obtaining n Danish passport. Later, he shipped in the Englishman, and made two trips to Canada, being employed on the first trip to watch for submarines. "And how I wished one would appear," he said. Tb> Englishman was sunk in March this year. In December Kray signed on with the Swedish barque Angelo. bound for Norway, which sailed from Car- i

diff on February 23, but, after running* 300 miles, became unseaworthy, and was towed into Berehaven by a naval tug. After repairs the Angelo again sailed, and reached Melsomik, near Tonsberg, Norway, where Kray revealed his identity and was sent home to Elberfeld. He will shortly be in the German Navy.