Crew and Passengers Safe in Prison

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 95, 22 April 1941, Page 6

Crew and Passengers Safe in Prison

LOSS OF PORT LINE SHIPS ' (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, April 21. The manager of the Port Line has received a cable from his London office to the effect that messages have been received by relatives in the United Kingdom from an assistant-cook of the liner Port Hobart, stating that all the passengers and crew were safe in a prison camp in France. The Port Hobart was outward bound to New Zealand, and the passengers to land at New Zealand ports as theif destination or to proceed to Australia were: Mr. L, P. D. Lockie, of Auckland; Misses E. and J. Neie, of Wellington, ; Miss E. A. M. Harcourt, of Wellington, i Miss P. M. Acland, of Lyttelton, Mrs. ; A. Sinclair, of Auckland or Wellington, I Mrs. A. L. Beales, of Auckland or Weli lington, and Mrs. J. C. Wiltshire, of Sydney. The liners Port Brisbane and Port Wellington, which were homeward bound from Australia, had passengers for the United Kingdom, and word has been received by relatives and conveyed to Wellington by cable from the London office of the Port Line that information had been received to the effect that the passengers and crews of both vessels were safe and were now in a prison camp, near Bordeaux,... J