INTERNED IN BERLIN
A NEW : ZEALAND SCULLER. A well-known New Zealand sculler, Tom Sullivan, was at the outbreak of the war under a four years' engagement as coach to a leading rowing club in Berlin. After winning many amateur races in the Dominion, he eame to Australia, and there he won three professional sculling races. Proceeding to England, he won the sculling championship there. He coached tho Oxford University eight for five of their annual races against Cambridge, and on each occasion the Oxford crew was successful. He was engaged by a Berlin club in 1912, and his engagement was to have terminated in 1916. When war was declared Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and their son were in the German capital. Mr. Sullivan, because he was a colonial, was treated very well, but the 6on, having been born in England, was interned immediately. Mrs. Sullivan was permitted to return to London. Her husband, however, was not allowed to accompany her, and though for the first few months he was allowed his liberty, the authorities made hiin a prisoner in January.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 10
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180INTERNED IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 10
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