COUNT VON LUCKNER SAILS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 9

COUNT VON LUCKNER SAILS

Nazi Propaganda Voyage VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 19, 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, April 19. Count Felix von Luckner has sailed in his new motor-yacht, Sea Devil, which is provisioned for six months and "carries fuel for 6000 miles. Ou the voyage Count von Luckner will engage in propaganda for German ideals. He will visit Australia and New Zealand. Count von Luckner is well remembered for his war-time commerce raiding exploits in the sailing ship Seeadler, which accounted for many Allied ships, although she caused no loss of life, before she was finally wrecked at the island of Mopelia in the Pacific. Count von Luckner and some of his men seized a French schooner and sailed south in the hope of securing another vessel in which to carry on their raiding activities, but they were captured at an island in the Fiji Group and brought to New Zealand, being interned at Motuihi, Auckland. The story of their daring escape and seizure of the scow Moa, and subsequent recapture, is familiar to New Zealanders.