HUNS GO HOME.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 May 1919, Page 3

HUNS GO HOME.

The authorities in Auckland kept the departure of Huns from Narrow Neck internment camp very dark until the men, women, and children concerned were got away. Had it become generally i known that these people were i going to march from the camp through Devonportto the torpedo wharf there would assuredly have been a crowd to witness their departure, and there might have been a? bit of a demonstration. The party comprised 71 German men, 3-:G-erman women, and 13 Germarr children, and amongst the men was the notorious Yon Luckner and Lieut. Kircheiss, of the -German raider Seeadler^ and L)r Schultz (ex-Governor, of Samoa). The whole lot of them were taken by express to Wellington where they were conducted aboard the Willochra, ancl by this time they are well on their way to the "land of Sauerkraut. They never will be missed, and the sooner the rest of them are cleared out of the Dominion the better. Those who have just gone were in the highest spirits, some of them smoking cigars and carrying gloves, and all were looking eagerly forward to being once more in the "Fatherland." Perhaps, after they get there they vrill not find it all beer and skittles. Whilst in the internment camp they have been well f»d and well treated in every way. In fact the treatment meted out to these men has been

in sharp contrast to that experienced by English and Colonial prisoners of war interned in Germany.