SEIZURE OF THE MOA BY WAR PRISONERS
OWNERS PETITION PARLIAMENT ..FOR RELIEF. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, December 19. The owners of tlio scow Mon, tho Leyland, O-Brien Timber Company, Ltd., are petitioning Parliament for relief for loss sustained through the forcible seizure of the vessel by Count von Luckner arid other German prisonors of war, who escaped from Motuihi Island last Dccem•ber. The petition states that Luckner and his men jettisoned portion of the cargo of timber, valued, at ,£304, 3s; 10d., - a coil of wire rope valued at i's3 2s. od„ I and 45 fathoms of cable, valued at ,£53 '10s; Ba. It is also claimed tho.t upon in-spection-in Auckland after the recapture it was ascertained thac the vessel had , been severely strained, to rectify which tho owners had to expend 4285 16s. sd. Further, the sum of J405, it is claimed, ■was lost by the owners as the result of . the dislocation:of their .business, through the temporary loss of the Moa. Tho' petitioners point'out that tho prisoners of war were interned; by the Government, and state that the Commandant of the internment camp, allowed them, without reasonable excuse, to escape.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 5
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