A ROBINSON CRUSOE
ON INDIAN OCEAN ISLAND. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 3. A remarkable story of the discovery of a modern Robinson- Crusoe on the island of Anno in the Indian Ocean, comes frqjn Berlin. It is there recorded that an air mail pilot, who had been driven from his course, which lay between Singapore and Ereemantle, descended on the is* l land. Immediately on landing he was' accosted by a large-bearded man, clothed in sack-cloth, and was requested to leave immediately. The airman learned that the recluse was a German Count, who formerly was a captain in the German mercantile marine. He sailed to Australia in 1909 to escape the distraction of his wife’s unfaithfulness. He then set out from Fremantle in a small boat, with provisions, arms xind instruments. He encountered a small island, and he decided to remain there. He has lived on coconuts, shellfish and tortoises, and he had not seen one human being for twenty-three years. The hermit showed great interest on hearing for the first time of the World War.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1931, Page 5
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