SOME CONSOLATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 135, 10 June 1938, Page 7

SOME CONSOLATION.

Insult to Count von Luckner Regretted. GESTURE TO FORMER CAPTOR. , SYDNEY, June 9. Scores of letters and telegrams were delivered to Count von Luckner to-day from all the Eastern States of Australia deploring the incident aboard the Seeteufel yesterday, when a group representing the School of Modern Writers, pretending to bring an address of welcome, read to the Count an attack upon Germany. Count von Luckner was the guest of honour to-night aboard H.M.A.S. Sydney. It was his 57th birthday. Earlier in the day the Count had as a visitor Captain P. H. Day, of the steamer Anjra, who took him as a prisoner to Fiji in September, 1917. The two men shook hands cordially and chatted over incidents of von Luckner's capture. , The Count told Captain Day his visit was one of the most important incidents of his life, and handed him an autographed portrait of himself, "To my frenerous captor, Captain Day, in remembrance of September 21, 1917, when you carried a pirate on your s.s. Anna to Suva." CAPTAIN'S ERROR. LOSS OF U.S. LINER ON REEF. (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 9. The Bureau of Marine Inspection has issued a finding that the loss of the liner President Hoover on a reef off Formosa on January 19 was due to an error by Captain G. Yardley in estimating the rate of flow of the current off Formosa. The finding, however, exonerated the captain, who died j recently as the result of worry and the ■ exposure he suffered at the time.