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THE CHINA MAIL,
MAY 7, 1941.
THE ELUSIVE COUNT VON LUCKNER
AFTER RABBITS OR PACIFIC SHIPS?
A BROADCAST to the United States by Edwin Hartrich, NBC representative, from the KZRH studio in Manila, said that the British and Dutch navies had been ordered to catch Count Felix von Luckner, famed German sea raider during the world' war, who, it was claimed, is commanding a fleet of 12 German raiders in the Pacific.
Hartrich said he obtained the story from a skip- per of a commercial vessel plying between the Dutch East Indies and Manila who was actually operating | under instructions from a European admiralty. The story has been known to him for four or five months, Hartrich added. Hartrich arrived in Manila April 17 from Saigon after a tour of the Far East. He is American correspondent for the London "News-Chronicle," "Newsweek" and North American Newspaper: Alliance. He plans to spend about a month in the Philippines. in anticipation of "big news" which he expects will break here in a few weeks.
The Arsi report linking the name of von Luckner with the ship sinkings in the Pacific broke
HE BOOKED
FIRST TOUR
AFTER WAR
Looking ahead to vic- out of Hong Kong on January 3 tory, an ardent tourist has! and was carried by the Associated Press. It said that survivors of lodged with a leading two Norwegian merchantmen, one travel agency his booking
seat
on the first.
of which was said to have been sunk and the other se zéd were for a responsible for the story about sight-seeing trip to
von Luckner.
The story was that the crew of
to
a Nazi sea raider boarded a Nor- wegian ship in Sumatran waters after an exchange of fire in which nine Norwegians were killed. The raider, first mistaken for a peace- ful merchantman, turned out be the Glen Line' ship Glengarry, 22 new ship with a speed of knots, which was seized by the Germans ut Copenhagen and sent devious to the south Pacific by routes. Von Luckner himself, so the story goes, addressed the sur- vivors, şaying he regretted he had to fire. Altogether he treated the survivors with every considera-
tion.
Headed For Kobe
·
Europe after the war.
It is the first application of the kind received by any of the prin- cipal travel agencies.
Even with the advent of peace, the man who wants to be the first
after-the-war tourist in Europe will have to do some waiting.
after-the- "The position of war tourism will be more diffi. cult than it was after, the last war," sald an official of the company which has received this first booking.
"Then there were neutral 'tour- un- ist companies' which were touched by war. Now almost every country has known the destruction of war.
New Frontiers
"There will be a shortage of
The raider then went to the In- dian ocean. She approached an- other Norwegian ship with her rails lowered and used shells to} sink the vessel. The survivors ships, and those which are avail-
PLOT TO POISON BRITISH WOUNDED
At least two at- been tempts have made to poison blood donoted in New York for British wounded, Captain Charles Skully, of the American Red Cross, revealed to 0 New York correspondent.
"In one attempt," said Captain Skully, "needles were inserted rubber through the cops and aluminium seals of a bottle of blood and poisonous matter injected. This outrage was discover- ed when the blood was examined before shipment to England.
"In
another hospital, everything
was ready for taking blood from volunteer donors when all the instruments were found to be con- taminated with poison."
CITRINE MUZZLED
Sir Walter Citrine, T.U.C. general secretary, has disclosed that he had refused to broadcast to because North America
were taken aboard the raider as able will be needed to repatriate the censorship had for- captives, and the ship headed for the soldiers and refugees Kobe, Japan, where the prisoners abroad. were placed aboard the Nazi liner Scharnhorst. Subsequently a num- ber of the Norwegians were leased and repatriation to Nor- way was arranged by British and Norwegian consular agents.
rc-
Pacific area probably was von
Luckner.
Then on
February 14, In a radiocast from New York, Lowell Thomas, noted
news
bidden something which "Destruction by bombing of he said was "in no senseTMTM ports and railways presents great difficulties. It will take at least secret or unknown to the a year to put harbours and ports enemy and was known in a condition to receive ships.
"The question of new frontiers throughout America.”
to be settled before. About the same time British Will have
When he returned from his over various rallway mission to the trades unions and naval officials in London saidj tickets the commander of the German systems can be issued.
people of the United States the Bouth ralder operating in the
"I imagine that even after the B.B.C. thought it desirable to pro- war, when the big job will be the vide facilities for him to broad- reconstruction of Britain, some of cast to North America. the present restrictions on taking money out wil still be applied.
"Nevertheless, as soon as it can commentaor, read excerpts of be done after the war we shall
von Luck-resume ner purporting to show that the vices." day the famed sea raider was re- ported tracking down helpless British merchantmen in the south Pacific, he was hunting rabbits In Germany. The letter was mailed at Halle, Germany, on January 1, the day before London dispatches
a
letter
from
reported him commanding a sea
raider.
our normal
travel ser-
THE NEW COURAGE
Plea for a new form of courage financial courage so that the The letter said in part: "I spend fighting Forces can be assured of the best war implements was most of the time hunting on the made by Lord Mottistone, Chair- Circat Harz forest and at Inge- borg. I am living in a log cabin, man of the National Savings Com- mittee, when he opened Ely (Cam- The snow is so high I am almost bridgeshire) War Weapons week,
If we were to finance-the-war successfully without enduring the evils of inflation, he said, the
cut off from the outside world.".
Anglo-Dutch Operations
Among the things he wanted to tell his listeners was that he had seen convincing 'evidence of indiscriminate bombing, since he got home.
The cutting out of what he wanted to say was not important. What was important and pro- foundly disturbing was the notion that seemed to prevail that res ponsible men could be dictated to as to what they felt able to say and that in any conflict of judgment the bureaucrat could muzzle the democrat.
い
BRIDE'S HOME
WRECKED
volume of savings" must be con-- Authoritative Batavia quarters siderably increased. said that the Dutch East Indies "I appeal to you frankly to A soldier and his bride returned up-to-date service fleet was constantly cooperating double your effort. The nation from a dance to find their new
with British fleet units against stands united and resolute. Our home wreckedbappal German sea raiders operating on achievements on the sea and That was one of the incidents the south Pacific, a spa In
the air, and recently of an air raid on a north-east The informants said there was in North and East
Africa town. There were a few casual- no definite evidence that Count on the land, show that we have tics. One was fatal wash Felix von Luckner, famour Gere the power to strike great blows A girl of twenty-four, Br man raider commander during
Dimrived from London a few days ago the first world war, was again
to stay with her mother-in-law, operating in the Pacific area as the
| diéd mainly fróm, shockt söon after commanding officer of a fleet of ANT
My the raldijua Náži raiders. They added, the German raider attack at sea some. A boy of sixteen and a woman Dutch fleet had no special orders time ago, said he thought the Ger- of seventy, are among the injured. to, hunt for von Lucknerie, man, commander was called Pot ru were killed by que of the
“An Australian who survived a
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