ADVENTURES OF VON LUCKNBR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22372, 8 April 1938, Page 8

ADVENTURES OF VON LUCKNBR

LECTURES IN THEATRE ROYAL

One of the most famous adventurers of modern times, Count Felix von Luckner, who destroyed thousands of tons of British merchant shipping during the war, will tell of his experiences in a series of three lectures at the Theatre Royal, to-morrow afternoon, to-morrow night, and on Monday night. Count von Luckner, who is on a tour of New Zealand, has been engaged by the J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation and the Fulle r - Hayward Theatre Corporation, Ltd,,, to make personal appearances in the principal centres. In these lectures he will describe, among other things, his attempt to escape from Rlpa Island,-in Lyttelton harbour. From the stage he will recount in his own way the sensational story of his war adventures. He will tell pf his amazing career as a raider, his adventures on the Seeadler, his capture

by the British, and his escape from Motuihi Island, in Auckland. Of the escape from Auckland many and varied have been the stories written, but few the first time Count von Luckner will give the authentic version. not only of the actual escape, but pf the months of careful preparation which preceded it. The box plans for the Count’s Chnstqhurch season are now open.