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Title: Five Months on a German Raider
Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'

Author: Frederic George Trayes

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FIVE MONTHS ON A GERMAN RAIDER

Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the "Wolf"

by

F. G. TRAYES

Formerly Principal of the Royal Normal College
Bangkok, Siam

London
Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd.
72 Oxford Street
W. 1

1919.

[Illustration: THE AUTHOR BEFORE CAPTIVITY AND WHEN RELEASED.]

DEDICATED

IN DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE DANISH NAVAL AUTHORITIES,
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, LIFEBOATMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES,
AND THE KINDLY INHABITANTS OF SKAGEN, DENMARK,
WHO SECURED FOR US, AND WELCOMED US BACK
TO FREEDOM, AND WHO BY THEIR OVERWHELMING
KINDNESS AND HEARTY HELP
AND HOSPITALITY LEFT WITH US SUCH
KIND AND HAPPY MEMORIES
OF THEIR COUNTRY AND
COUNTRYMEN AS
WILL NEVER BE
FORGOTTEN.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE CAPTURE OF THE "H