THE SEEADLER
The Seeodli-i- (the Sen liaglc), Count Felix yon Luckuer's ship, Mas formerly the Pass of Balmahii, captured by a German submarine, alid'carrying two 4:2 guns, several machine guns, find a crew oE 154 hands, tho 4.2 guns, being nble to (ire thirty-four shots a minute, writes a correspondent, "One Who Knows." The ship was lost on Mopchu. Island while lying on its side to be cleaned. Yon Luckner was later captured with Jive of his crew in the Cook Islands, and brought to Motuihi Island, Auckland, as a prisoner of war, escaping from there, .lie was recaptured at Curtis Island in the Kerniadccs. and he spent fourteen days in jMount Eden civil prison after his recapture, and was afterwards sent to liipa Island, near Lyltelton, for six months before going to Motuihi again, und leaving Wellington in about May, 1919, ou the Willoehra for Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 20
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