VON LUCKNER.
No Coddling: of the Count. "I£7"ON Luckner is, it is understood, »' on Ripa Island in I/yttelton Harbour. "Why he has not been kept safely under lock and key in Mount Eden we fail to understand. He is a brainy, resour.eeful fellow, and if we only knew the truth, he will probably find as many German or pro-German friends in Christchureh as he did in Auckland. Everybody has read of the treatment meted out by the Huns to British prisoners who have failed in their attempts to escape from German internment camps. Some have been put in fetters and. placed on a bread and water diet, others have been actually flogged by their brutal gaolers. '4 * * e We have no desire to see "Von Luckner treated in this way, but we trust that he will not be allowed any luxuries and that he and his associates will be put to some useful hard labour. These fellows have put the country to a heavy expense, and they should'certainly be deprived of all the absurd privileges they enjoyed on Motuihi. They should be completely isolated from all other residents on Hipa Island, and not allowed to see any visitors. New Zealand cannot afford to allow herself, a second time, to- be made a laughing stock to the rest. of the world. Once is quite enough. ' :
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Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 913, 11 January 1918, Page 8
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224VON LUCKNER. Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 913, 11 January 1918, Page 8
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