The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
GERMAN RAIDER
sinks MANY
ALLIED VESSELS
Wolf Returns To Port After 0per-
ating Fifteen Months In Three
0ceans-VictimS Include Wal
runa, Hitachi Maru and Three
American Ships

NEW YORK, February 27-(Asso-
ciated Press)--A German commerce
raider, the Wolf, which for fifteen
months operated in the Atlantic, Pacific
and Indian oceans aud which was re.
sponsiPle for the mysterious disappear,
ance of a large DumbPr Of vessels that
left port and were mover heard of again,
has returned safely to the Austrian port
| Of POla on the Adrlati, Sea, according
to dispatches received here Yesterday
from several European capitals.
Another German rardrr the English
| cruiser TurritpIIn, which had been seiZ.
ed by the Wolf and turned into a raid,
pr, was not so fortunate. according to
despatch from Berlin The vessel,
the despatch SAYS, wa sunk by it's
German crew when confronted with an
English vessel and when escape was i'm.
possible
Mysteries Explained
The Wolf had carrr' almost equal.
ling in adventure ana laring that of
| the famous cruiser Emdrn, and was
responsible for the sinking of several
| vessels whose fatrs have hitherto been
mysteries. Among them, according TO
| IN official statement of the British ad-
| miralty, were the American vessels
| Beluga, Winslow and Encore; the Japa.
| nese steamer Hitachi Nnu; the Bri
| fish steamers Junna. Waruna, Matan
"a, Wardiworth and Dee and the Span
sh steamer Igot2 Meud
According to a despatch from Der,
| lin, when the Wolf reached the Aus
trian port. the Kaiser conferred on the
officers and crew the order of Pour lie
Merite and the iron cross. The des-
patch says the cruiser Is commanded
by Captain Merger. 1t brought 400
members of the crews Of Allied and
neutral ships sunk Mt sea, among whom
are numerous colored British soldiers
| from armed steamers. 1t also brought
a. cargo of great value.
Captured Cruiser
/ The Wolf captured an English cruis,
err; the Turritella, and operated it in
the Gulf of Alden. This raider was
confronted by an armed British vessel
and was sunk by it's crew when escape
was impossible.
| A Copenhagen despatch says that
the Spanish steamer lg0tz Mendi af
ter being captured in the Gulf of In
dia nine months ago hy the German
raider Wolf and put in charge of @
prize crew, has failed t" make Ger
| man port. The vessel with its prize
crew was sailed from the Pacific tow
! rrd German waters. but went ashore
near the Skaw Lighthouse, on the ex
treme tip of Jutland. - The prisoner
| on the Igotz Mendi included two Amer
leans from the ships sunk. Severa
" those aboard were prisoners for
| eight months while the lgotz Mend
| cruisPd on the Pacific.
Americans Rescued
Nine women, two children and thu
wo Americans are among those res
ued when the ship went ashore. TIL,
commander of the steamer has beer
lnterned and the members of the crew
taken from the ship Many of thos
lboard the vessel were suffering from
1eri beri and scurvy.
Amsterdam confirms the arrival a
pola Of the Wolf and adds. the infor
matioh that the vessel tried repeated
to get through the North Sea to
port in Germany but was prevente,
" the British patrol.