CAPTURE YON LUCKNER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7

CAPTURE YON LUCKNER

INSTRUCTIONS TO NAVY. NEW YORK, April 2S. A broadcasting correspondent in Manila broadcast a report that units of the British and Free Netherlands Navies have been ..idered to capture Count von Luckner, who is reported to be commanding 12 armed merchant raiders in the Soutu l’acme < hich are allegedly operating from .Japanese bases in the Caroline and Marshall Islands. At Havana the navy announced that the cruiser Cuba has seized the yacht Ezzegoing, flying, the United States flag. It removed a woman and three men who have been interned pending efforts fo determine their nationality, which is reported to be German. It is understood the yacht lacked proper navigation papers and identification documents.

Rio de Janeiro reports that the German ireigliter Lech, which arrived from Germany on March 3 alter breaking the blockade, sailed this evening. Captain Brinekipann had asked for a permit to sail at noon to-morrow, but lie sailed at 8 p.m.. alter completing the loading of cotton. The Canadian Government has seized a shipment of 1.-3000001 bof coffee aboard a freighter which berthed at Vancouver. The shipment originated in Cristobal, in the Canal Zone, and is believed to have been scheduled for transhipment at San Francisco for Germany, via Japan and Russia, but the freighter was instructed by radio while at sea to proceed to \ ancouver. The origin of the radio instructions is not disclosed.