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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941:

THE ELUSIVE ČOUNT 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 Manilaj 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 In the Philippines, anticipation of "big news" which he expects will break here in a few weeks.

The Arst report linking the name of von Luckner with the ship sinkings in the Pacific broke out of Hong Kong on January 3 and was carried by the Associated, Fress. It said that survivors of two Norwegian merchantmen, one

MUNITIONS CALL TO

PLOT TO POISON BRITISH WOUNDED

At least two at- tempts have been made to poison blood donated in New York for British wounded, Captain Charles Skully, of the American Red Cross, revealed to а New York correspondent.

IDLE GIRLS HE BOOKED FIRST TOUR

Recruit for munitions work the large number of girls who have left bombed areas and are living in idleness in safe towns and villages.

That call

to the Minister of

AFTER WAR

of which was said to have been Labour is to be made by Sir Looking ahead to vic- sunk and the other seized were Patrick Hannon, Conservative tory, an ardent tourist has responsible for the story about M.P. for Moseley, Birmingham, in lodged with a leading travel agency his booking for a

seat on the first

von Luckner.

Parliament.

He will ask the Minister also to "use power to prevent the de-

moralisation of these women, sight-seeing trip to

Europe after the war.

who should be employed in the service of their country."

In the

Somerset the

The story was that the crew of a Nazi sen 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 to be the Glen Line ship Glengarry.

Bridgwater district of It is the first application of the employment com-kind received by any of the prin- new ship with

a speed of 22mittee has formed a panel to plan cipal travel agencies. knots, which was seized by the engineering training for women Germans at Copenhagen and sent who have been jobless for to the south Pacific by devious

month or more. routes. Von Luckner himself, so the story goes, addressed the sur- vivors, saying he regretted he had to fire. Altogether he treated the survivors with every considera-

tion.

Headed For Kobe

"Idling"

В

A member said: "It is a mat. ter of national importance that evacuee girls and women should do something more definite than walking up and down the streets all day long."

The ralder then went to the In- dian ocean. She approached an-

"They are idling their time in other Norwegian ship with her the villages, too." said a country rails lowered and used shells to member. Mr. W. House. sink the vessel.

"They The survivors should be doing something." were taken aboard the raider as But it was not only evacuees captives, and the ship headed for who came in for criticism. There Kobe, Japan, where the prisoners are 370 local girls, too, who are were placed aboard the Nazi liner not working. Scharnhorst. Subsequently a num ber of the Norwegians were re- leased and repatriation to Nor- way was arranged by British and Norwegian consular agents,

About the same time British naval officials in London sald the commander of the Germani

CITRINE

MUZZLED

ralder operating In the south! Sir Walter Citrine,

Pacific area probably was von Luckner.

T.U.C. general secretary,

Even with the advent of peace. the man who wants to be the first after-the-war tourist in Europe will have to do waiting.

some

"The position of after-the- war tourism will be more diffi- cult than it was after the last war," said an official of the company which

has received this first booking. "Then there were neutral "tour- ist companies' which were un- touched

Now by war.

almost every country has known the destruction of war.

New Frontiers

"There will be a shortage of ships, and those which are avail- able will be needed to repatriate the soldiers and refugees from abroad.

"Destruction by bombing of ports and railways presents.great difficulties. It will take at least a year to put harbours and ports In a condition to receive ships. "The question of new frontiers

Then on February 14, has disclosed that he had will have to be settled before a radiocast from New York, Lowell Thomas, noted

refused to broadcast to news commentaor, read excerpts of North America because

let'er from von Luck- ner purporting to show

tickets over various railway systems can be issued.

"I imagine that even after the

reconstruction of Britain, some of

that the the censorship had for-war, when the big job will be the day the famed sea raider was re- bidden something which the present restrictions on taking ported tracking down helpless British merchantmen in the south he said was "in no sense money out wil still be applied.

"Nevertheless, as soon as it can Pacific, he was hunting rabbits in secret or unknown to the be done after the war we shall Germany. The letter was mailed

resume our normal travel 'ser- vices,"

at Halle, Germany, on January 1, enemy and was known the day before London dispatches throughout America." reported him commanding a sea raider.

The letter said in part: "I spend most of the time hunting on the Great Harz forest afid at Inge- borg.. I am living in a log cabin, The snow is so high I am almost cut off from the outside world."

Anglo-Dutch Operations

Authoritative Batavia quarters!

When

he returned from his mission to the trades unions and people of the United States the B.B.C. thought it desirable to pro- vide facilities for him to broad- cast to North America.

9 CARAT WEDDING RINGS

Among the things he wanted to tell his flateners was that he

There is such a shortage of wed- had seen convincing evidence of ding rings in the Midlands that Indiscriminate bombing since he brides may shortly have to wear a→ got home."

standard nine carat gold ring, The cutting out of what heThe Government quota allows said that the Dutch East Indies wanted to say was not important. retailers and wholesalers to sell up-to-date service fleet was constantly cooperating What was important and pro-only twenty-five per cent of the with British fleet units against foundly disturbing was the notion value of rings that they sold last German sea raiders operating on that seemed to prevail that res year, while the demand through the south Pacific.

ponsible men could be dictated war weddings has increased by The informants said there was to as to what they felt able to more than ten per cent," said a no definite evidence that Count say and that In any conflict of director of a jewellery, firm.. Felix von Luckner, famour Ger- judgment the bureaucrat could Twenty-two carat rings are n man raider commander during muzzle the democrat.. the first world war, was again operating in the Pacific area as the commanding officer of a pet," of, Nazi raiders. They added the German raider attack at sea some manufacturers are:

si Dutch fleet had no special orders to hunt for vón, Luckner, ap

An Australian who survived

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** pluxury to-day.” Brides have to be

She content with n-nino carat ring.

} "The Government class wed- ding rings 4 as a "luxury" und

ying:

me ago, said he thought the Ger- convince the Board of Trade that

commander was called the wedding ring

Associated Press

high sentimental

tain is