TRANSFER OF INTERNED GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 4

TRANSFER OF INTERNED GERMANS

FKOM MOTXfIHI ISLAND TO NARROW, NECK CAMP.

By Telegraph*-Press Association. Auckland, December 17. The interned Ge.imans were transferred from Motuihi Islifnd to Narrow Neck Camp yesterday ai:iernoon. The ex-Gov-ern'or of Samoa (Si'Amltz) drove from tho wharf to camp in .a motor-car, and the mnin body marched under guards. A few hoots greeted ;schultz at one point, otherwise there wall do demonstration. The prisoners looked! remarkably healthy and well fed. At tr«> head of the march was Count von Luftner, who .took no part in the laughter i«nd joking in which the other internees indulged, _ When the ohotpgreipher. was taking a "snap" von Luckner -.raised the coat on his arm in front of his face. What struck the spectators most was the amazing amount of goods and chattels which" accompanied theY prisoners. Severa.l Defence Department Wagons were engaged throughout the- day conveying these effects from the Wharf to the camp. 4t the wharf the lujgage was landed on the wagons by the -V™ o ™™- oamn Hie duty of tokin-f )t oft fell to the Native soldiers. The hart formerly used by tho Y.M.C.A. has tyen set aside, it is understood.'as the of the exGovernor of Samoa. Blrly m the day,it is reported, it was <qipeested .to entain noncommissioned .officers .in tne enmn that they might V et * Native soldiers to prepaje this hut for its occupant, but the cable m**n<x that morning telling of the ihuhlohon of a British nrisoner in Germany wns W* ml .is sufficient reason for ;no "»ort bem? mnde in tho direction ind-KWrt.