THE MOTUIHI PRISONERS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 4

THE MOTUIHI PRISONERS.

REMOVAL TO XAHROW XECK

(PRESS ASSOCIATION VELEGItAiI.) AUCKLAND, December 17. iho interned Germans were transferred Jrom Motuihi Island to Narrow Neck Camp yesterday afternoon. 'i'iie ex-Go.-ermir of Samoa, Sciiultz, drove irorn tho wharf to tlie camp in a motor-car, but tne main bodv marched iincier guard. A lew hoJts greeted wchuitz at one point, otherwise there was no demonstration. The prisoners looked remarkably liealthv and well-fed. At the head ol : the inarch was Count von Luckuer, who took no part in the laughter and joking in Vpl e iel " Ulttjrn ees indulged 'Vhen a photographer was tailing a snap > von Lur-kiier raised the coat, w-hich he carried on his arm, in f ron c of Ins face. What struck the spectators most was the amazing amount of „ocds and chattels which nt-companicd the prisoners. Several Defence Department wagons were throughout the day conveying "theso effects from tlie uharf to the camp At the wharf the lucrg.i-e was landed on waggons Jiv bnt at the camp the duty of taking it off the waggons fell to Native soldier? , V(r r l m \ f T m "''- v l,sed b ->' tho 1.J1.C.A. has been set aside it ic m. derstood as the .abode V>f the ex-Gov-ernor of Samoa. Larly in the dav, it is reported, it was suggested to certain non-commissioned oificers in camp that they might .get a party of Native solh„? repar M S lm V for its occupaut, but a cablegram that morning telling of the mutilation of a British prisoner in Germany was regarded as sufficient reason for no effort being made m the direction indicated.