OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED.
Sixty British, mostly old sailors of tho mercantile marine, and 500 French soldiers from various Swiss internment camps, recently left Berno for homo (says the Daily Mail). Tho sailors woro men who had been in the Qtaki or in the hold of the raider Moewe during the figlifc with tho Otaki. Others belonged to trawlers. All wore looking liko fish out of water in their khaki camp clothes. The first officer of Captain Fryatt'a steamer-Brussels, and the carpenter of tho same ship were Still spick and span in their »avy blue, having managed to save an extra an;'; to got back to England in.
“Yes, they’ve treated us well in Switzerland,” said another, who w.as one of a batch that had been cured of arteriosclerosis (thickening of the arteries) at Bcysin. “ After living in Brandenburg camp on four ounces of black bread and two pints of cabbage water a day, with plenty of what the Germans call arbeit ’ (work) thrown in, we were about ready for a little tour in Switzerland.” They all looked old and ill.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3348, 15 May 1918, Page 44
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180OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED. Otago Witness, Issue 3348, 15 May 1918, Page 44
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