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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14585, 7 February 1921, Page 6

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes (.says a London correspondent; that in a lecture delivered there Count von Luckncr, who commanded the sailing cruiser See Adler, described the tricks by which that \essel managed to slip through the British blockade disguised as a Norwegian merchant ship. He did not say how he came by the "genuine log book," but he told how all the members of tiie crow took on Norwegian names and learned out ot "Baedeker" the topography of the places where they professed to have been born. They were also, somehow, furnished with photographs ot sweethearts, which they had to show as evidence that they had been taken at the sailors' birthplaces. The most difficult task was the provision or love letters, which seafaring men are ac< ustomed to hoard up for years. It was known, said the Count, that the British were accustomed to take ■ :..pies" of such letters, and it was the! . e necessary to have them availai>'&. Seven men spent weeks in doing ■ : but write such love letters. '. - hip's papers "were altered by ending, and rendered ineligible by irLMlcial dampness." During an overruling by a British warship one or the crew played the part of the captain's wife, and in order to escape detection, pretended to have toothache, and lay in a bunk with his head swathed in compresses. The result of Hie British search was that an "officer gave a certificate that the completely Illegible papers were in order." vnitrn ttere's a belter Solid TrucK Tyr* tbari til' present NORTH BRITISH, tht Nortli Brttfib Rubber Co. will mkke It. Aaents and service dealers. 11l