Pacific Raiders Well Informed of Victims

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 4, 6 January 1941, Page 8

Pacific Raiders Well Informed of Victims

DEATH FOR SPIES SYDNEY, Jan. 4. Special trains equipped with every comfort are carrying the Nazi raider victims to their destinations, among them being Captain H. Upton, ma-ster of the Rangitane. He told an interviewer: "It does 6cem certain that the Pacific raiders have been getting and are getting effective intelligence from someone, and they may be getting it by wireless from a neutral vessel. The raiders’ recent activities have been based on sound information.” Other survivors said that the raiders had known all about the cargoes on the various vessels they sank.

Von Luckner Said to Command One of Raiders HONGKONG, Jan. 3. It is reliably stated in Hongkong that one German raider is the former British ship Glengarry, which was seized in Copenhagen and sailed to the Pacific under the British flag commanded by Count von Luckner. She has been masquerading as a Japaneso ship and carries a plane. (There is no British ship named the Glengarry in the official list.)

Use of Japanese Ship Denied y Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. It is pointed out by the Japanese Consulate-General in Wellington that the assumption that the supply and prison ship used by the German raiders in the Pacific was the Osaka Syosen Kaisha motorship Toky Maru is quite erroneous. “As a matter of fact,” he says, “she has been and still is in normal service between Japan and Australia. She was at Kobe on November 26 when the Rangitane was attacked and sunk. She left Moji, Japan, on December 3 for Australia, and arrived in Brisbane on December 14.”