COUNT VON LUCKNER.
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. “BECAUSE T LOVE THAT COUNTRY.” (United Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, March 19. Count Felix von Luckner has announced plans for taking the schooner vaelit' .Mopelia to New Zealand next winter, “because I love that country, he explained. Count von Buckner, who commanded the German commerce raider Seeadlor during tho war, was interned in Zealand for neatly a year. Alter escaping from Motuihi Island (Aucklancy he was recaptured at the Kei madecs and interned on Rip ft Island., in Lyttelton Harhour. Later he was taken to Soaines Island, Wellington. Purina his career of depredation among Allied shipping he did damage estimated to he worth £7,000.000. but was never the cause of a single life being lost.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 135, 20 March 1931, Page 5
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