Vos Luckner and Topsy

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13947, 27 July 1918, Page 5

Vos Luckner and Topsy

A SUM THAT GREW. AN IMPUDENT CHAIM. (Auckland “Star” Correspondent.) SUVA (Fiji), July 10. When Count von Luckner was captured there was a sum of money found on the Ceeilie, which was the name of the boat in which he was taken prisoner. At a sitting of the Supreme Court of Fiji, in Prize, the motor launch and the money were disposed of and condemned as good and lawful prize. If von Luckner had been reasonable he might have been much better off. When he first surrendered to Sub-Inspector Hills he said that part of the money was his and part of it belonged to the ship. In an application or claim ho made later he cftiimed the whole of the money. In a later claim he claimed the whole of the money and a roll of notes which he said was on the launch, but which was not found by Sub-Inspector Hills or anybody else. The sum of money was £489, in Bank of England notes and gold, so that it wan worth putting up a fight for. ‘‘There would have been no application to the Court,” said the AttorneyGeneral (Hon. A. K. Young, K.C.), ‘‘if it had not beca that an application had been made by Count von Luckner claiming the whole of the sum.” His Honour Sir Charles Davison ruled as above, so that the launch and money go to the Crown, The launch is to be used by one of the district commissioners.

much of the unwise advice that wa s offered so freely, Germany would be provoked to retaliation, which would react against British and Allied internees im Germany. The Minister spoke emphatically against indiscriminate internment. He said that such action would not only be unjust to numbers of people, but would be foolish and needlessly costly. Persons now working usefully for the community would be withdrawn, uni the country would lose not only their labour but would have to provide 8largo number of guards.