COUNT YON LUCKNER IN SYDNEY
fifty-seventh birthday
CELEBRATED
VISIT PAID BY* WAR-TIME
CAPTOR
(Received June 10, 1 sun.)
SYDNEY, June 9.
To-day, on the occasion of hia fifty-seventh birthday. Count von Luckner was favoured with a visit from Captain P. H. Day. of the steamer Amra, who took him as a prisoner to Fiji in September, 1917. Count von Luckner and Captain Day shook hands cordially and chatted over the incidents of Count von Luckner’s capture. The Count, who told Captain Day that his visit was one of the most important incidents in his life, handed him an autographed portrait of himself, “To my generous captor. Captain Day. in remembrance of September 21, 1917, when you carried a pirate on your s.s. Amra to Suva ” Scores of letters and telegrams were delivered to Count von Luckner to-day from all die eastern states deploring the incident aboard the See Teufel yesterday. Count von Luckner to-night was the guest of honour aboard the cruiser Sydney.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22424, 10 June 1938, Page 13
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