THE ESCAPE FROM MOTUIHI.
Claim against the state
AUCKLAND, December 19.
The owners of the scow Moa (the Leyland O'Brien Timber .Company) are petitioning Parliament for relief for loss sustained through the forcible seizure of the vessel by Count von Luckner and other German prisoners of war who escaped from Motuihi last December. - The petition states that" Luckner and his men jettisoned a portion of the cargo of. timber valued at £304 3s 16d, a coil of wire rope valued at ±,53 2s 5d and 45 fathoms of cable valued at £59 10s 9d ' It is also claimed that upon inr spection in Auckland, - after recapture, .it was ascertained that the vessel had been severely strained, to rectify which the owners had to expend £285 16s 5d.. A further sum of £405, it is claimed,, was lost by. the owners as the result of the dislocation of their business through the temporary loss of the Moa. The petitioners point out that the prisoners of war were interned by. the Government, and state that the commandant of the internment camp allowed them without reasonable e-xcuse to escape.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 26
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186THE ESCAPE FROM MOTUIHI. Otago Witness, Issue 3380, 25 December 1918, Page 26
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