NOT A PROPAGANDIST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19365, 1 July 1937, Page 15

NOT A PROPAGANDIST

VON LUCKNER’S VISIT EX-COM HADE’S TRIBUTE GERMAN COLONY PLEA (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “Count von Luckner is not coming here to spread Nazi propaganda, I can assure you of that,” said Captain R. Koehler, marine superintendent at Sydney for the Hamburg-America Line, who is visiting Auckland in connection with the visit of the German steamer Gera, which arrived yesterday from Gulf of Mexico ports. "He is a fine fellow and a great sport," added Captain Koehler, who was a lieutenant aboard the German raider Moewe, while Count von Luckner was lieutenant commander. He is not like some of the older naval officers —very hard—he is a fine commander. “Now perhaps you can tell me something. Why doesn’t Britain give us back some of our colonies? Some of the arguments I have heard in Australia are very amusing. We are not so much concerned with Samoa and New Guinea as with Africa. We want somewhere to send our overflow population so that they can grow raw materials and settle down in business. And another thing, Africa is much nearer home.”