| Show l HUN RAIDER SAFE AFTER 15 I 5 MONTHS r OF Reaches Austrian Port With Prisoners Pris ners 7 Guns Gun i an and al cable Stores I By Associated Press AMSTERDAM Feb 25 A A dispatch dispatch dis lis- patch patch to the tho from Berlin BerUn says the UlC auxiliary cruiser Wolf Rolf landed in the Austrian harbor of Pola Adriatic sea The Tho dispatch adds that the vess vessel l tried repeatedly to return to the North se sea sea but but al always always always al- al thc watchfulness ways was barred by the of the tho British ships The Wolf was commanded by Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain taro and inflicted the greatest greatest great great- est cst damage on the tho enemy's shipping by tho of cargo space and cargo She brought home more than members of crews of sunken ships of various nationalities especially numerous nu nu- nu- nu colored and white British diets dielS besides several guns captured d from Irom armed steamers and great quantities quantities quantities quan quan- of ot valuable raw materials such as rubber copper brass zinc cocoa beans leans copra and similar articles to the value of many million marks The English cruiser which was captured In February was equipped as a second auxiliary cruiser and christened Iltis She successfully operated in the gulf of Aden under the command command- of the Wolfs Wolf's first officer of- of officer officer of of- Lieutenant Captain un un- con confronted fronted by British forces force She was sunk by her own crew numbering numbering numbering num num- bering twenty seven who are prisoners prison prison- ers era In British hands This cruise of the Volf Wolf carried out under most difficult circumstances with Whit no base and no communication with home constitutes a unique achievement By Associated Press Preas LONDON Feb 26 Referring Referring to a aGerman aGerman aGerman German report of the return of the tle German auxiliary cruiser Wolf after a cruise of fifteen months a British admiralty communication issued this afternoon assumes that during that period the Ule Wolf sank In the Indian and Pacific oceans tho the following eleven ships and made their crews prisoners Steamers Wadsworth Wadsworth Wadsworth Wads- Wads worth Wairuna Beluga Hitachi Mara Maru and s r Sailing vessels Dee Winslow and Encore The communication adds The was an unarmed merchantman and not nota a a cruiser She was captured in February 1917 and anda a German prize crew placed aboard The was then equipped for mine laying laing but a few days later was encountered by a British warship whereupon the prize cr crew w sank the and were themselves taken prisoners The was of ot tons the J rona of the Wairuna of ot lo tons and the Matanga 1618 tons Available records do not give the Wadsworth The Dee was a three- three m masted schooner schOOn of 1169 6 tons By United Press SAN FRANCISCO Feb 26 News News that the tile German raider wrecked In the South Pacific had a partner in the auxiliary cruiser Wolf today cleared up the mystery of th the disappearance of three Pacific coast vessels The They were the schooner Winslow owned by Geor George e E. E Billings Dill Bill ings of San Francisco the Pacific Steam Whaling company's schooner Beluga and the schooner Encore owned by the Vie Rolph Coal and Navigation Navigation Navi Navi- gation company All were victims of the Wolf and it is believed their crews are included in in inthe the prisoners the raider has delivered to Germany Captain Cameron of or the Beluga had his tile wife and little daughter on the trip with him and they are believed to be amon among the prisoners |
