7. _American bark_ "BELUGA," of San Francisco, 590 gross tons, Captain CAMERON, bound from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, with a cargo of benzine. Captured latitude south 26 degrees, on July 9th. After removing 300 cases of oil, the stores and boatswain's supplies, the _Beluga_ was set on fire on July 11th by gun fire, by the nineteenth shot. 8. _American schooner_ "ENCORE," 651 gross tons, Captain OLESON, bound from Columbia River to Sydney, Australia, with a load of lumber. Captured July 16th in latitude south 21 degrees and longitude east 169 degrees. After removing stores she was set on fire and left. 9. _Australian s/s._ "MATUNGA," of the Burns & Phillips Line, Captain DONALDSON, en route from Sydney to Rabul, New Guinea. Captured August 4th, about 122 miles southwest of Rabul. Both vessels proceeded from this point to Pirate's Cove, at the northernmost end of New Guinea, arriving there on August 10th. Transferred cargo to the _Wolf_, amounting to some 850 tons of coal and 350 tons of supplies; also prisoners (passengers), including two army medical corps officers and three military captains. On August 26th _Wolf_ proceeded to sea and sunk the _Matunga_ by three bombs, vessel sinking in six and one-half minutes. Full particulars of the _Matunga's_ cargo was picked up by the _Wolf_ in a wireless message to her consignees, giving a copy of her outward manifest, also all sailing dates from time to time by Burns & Phillips themselves. 10. _Japanese s/s._ "HITACHI MARU," of the N.Y.K. Co., 6558 gross tons, Captain KOKMOA, en route from Colombo to England, via African ports. Captured on September 26th off the Maldive Islands and proceeded to southernmost group of the Maldives, where 800 tons of bunker coal were transferred to the _Wolf_, also 250 tons of copper and tin, silk, tea, approximately 400 tons of rubber, further cocoanuts and hides. On October 7th both vessels proceeded in different directions, the _Wolf_ seeking for another vessel with coal while the _Hitachi_ loafed along in a general southeasterly direction. _Wolf_ picked up _Hitachi_ again on October 19th, forty-two miles west of the Chagos group. On October 20th both vessels arrived at the Chagos Islands and tied up together. Additional rubber and silk and remaining coal were transferred to the _Wolf_. On the morning of November 7th both vessels left Chagos and the _Hitachi_ was bombed. 11. _Spanish steamer_ "IGOTZ MENDI," of Bilboa, 4648 tons. Captured in the Indian Ocean November 10th, en route from Delagoa Bay to Colombo with a cargo of coal. This vessel was sent to Germany, but grounded off DENMARK. 12. _American bark_ "WILLIAM KIRBY," 1200 tons, of New York, Captain BLUM, from New York to Port Elizabeth, Africa, with a general cargo; captured on November 15th. Crew, provisions and stores were taken off and the vessel bombed on November 16th. She was captured 320 miles southeast of Port Elizabeth.