OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED
THE JtOEWE'S CAPTIVES. Sixty British, mostly old sailors of the mercantile marine, and MO French boldiei's from various Swiss intormuont camps, recently left Berne for homo (says the "Daily Mail")., Tho sailors waro men who had been in the Otaki or in tho hold of tho raider Moowe during; tho fight with tho Otaki, Others belonged lo trawlers. AH woro looking like fish out of water in their khaki camp clothes. Tho first officer of Captain li'ryatfs stoamor jirussols and the carpenter of tho same ship woro still 6pick and span in their navy blue, having managed to save an extra euit to get back to England in. "Yos, thoy'vo treated .us 'well in Switzerland," 6aid another, who was one of a batch thnt had been cured of arteriosclerosis (Ihickoning of the artoriee) at Loysin. "After living in Jjivindenburg: j Camp on four ouncc3 of black bread ,ind two pints of cabbage wator a day, with plenty of what the Germans call 'arboit" (work) thrown in, wo were about ready for a little lour in Switzerland." They all looked old and ill.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 188, 29 April 1918, Page 4
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185OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 188, 29 April 1918, Page 4
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