LOCAL PRISONERS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 6

LOCAL PRISONERS OF WAR

TO BE SENT TO SOMES ISLAND. ? Somes Island, ifv Wellington Harbour, i has been appointed a place of internment for prisoners, of war arrested in New Zea- . land. The nubliC'are warned against ap- ■> preaching the island, aiid any vessel poing . within halt' a mile is liable to lie filed on. o GERMANS ARKI3STED. A number of Germans (not ,naturalised o British subjects) were .n-rested by the ujwlm* j'csteito.i .Th<u rate kuxdod. over. ■ t ' -

o the military authorities to be kept a custody. '• i (By Telejfraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, August 10. The polico arrested twenty-four German •eservists, including members of a Gernan band. They were removed by an irmed guard to Tort Cautley. • Christchurch, August 10. In all about half a dozen German resorrists have been arrested in Canterbury, md under instructions received are all being handed over to the military authorities to bo sent to Wellington.' Jtr. Hein,pn, secretary to the German Consul in Dliristchurch, was arrested this morning, and will be sent to Wellington by this jvening's boat. Auckland, August 10. By special train this afternoon were disp'atcned to Wellington thirty-two German subjects who ■ wero being taken to Wellington as prisoners of war. Invercargill, August 10. A Gennan reservist fireman on the Ma- • nuka, from Sydney,. was arrested at' tlie Bluff to-day. Timaru,' August 10. l,tr. M. Kurzell, a well-to-do German reservist, who has been living at.Temuka for 6orae months in a house on his own proporty, was arrested last evening.-. Dunedin, August 10. Two German Reservists wore arrested at Port Chalmers on Saturday, find, with another, wero sent to . Wellington to-day. A German supposed to 1c a reservist has been sent up from Milfoil, Two supposed reservists who proved not to be suoa hove been released.' ■ . , • .'