ON THE OSTERLY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 6

ON THE OSTERLY

A PRO-GERMAN PASSENGER. Mr. M. Carr, who returned to Wellington yesterday,\ states, that an incident occurred on tho ' Orient liner Osterley on the voyage out winch f< rmed the basis of a good deal ot talk for the rest of the trip. On the trip a big concert was arranged in aid ot tlie Patriotic Fund, to bo attended by all classes on the ship. One first-class passenger, on being approached, began to-exude a lot of "hob air," and said this sort of thing was only got up to, advertise the Orient Compauy. Anyhow the Patriotic Fund was nothing to do with him. The news of tlie man's free talk spread all over the ship, and some people felt pretty heated about it. "The next day," said Mr. Carr, "ho asked me to have a, drink with nim, and I told him that I did not wish to speak to him. I did not want to havo any communication with a proGerman, who had said things about the Patriotic Fund of.a nation whoee Hag ho was travelling under the pro-tection-of. • , , "He gave me the lie direct before a number of ladies, and later on L invited him to accompany me to the top deck, where I would punch his head, but he refused. Then we heard that ho had contributed to the fund, at 11.30 p.m. through the bar steward, though the list had closed at 10 p.m. On board, was a Mr. Clark, of the Ceylon Magistracy. Ho knew of our friend's pro-German learnings, and before arriving at Colombo stated that it was his intention to report him on arrival at Colombo. When we did arrive his luggago was searched, and two six-shooters were found among his traps. He was detained' in Colombo under police surveillance,, and for all ■1 know is there still. The person referred to was well-known in the moving picture business a year or two ago in Australia, and is not unknown, in Wellington." . ' . ' '-.