CARL SEEGNER INTERNED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1771, 3 January 1918, Page 3

CARL SEEGNER INTERNED.

VFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF LIBERTY.

Acting under instructions from the military authorities, the civil police visited the residence of Carl Seeguer, iu St. Stephen’s Avenue, Auckland, and arrested him. He was handed over to the military authorities, and conveyed to Motuihi Island for internment as a firstclass civilian prisoner.

Scegner was Consul for Germany at Auckland-from 1892 until the outbreak of the war. With his secretary, Lotimr Eilender, ho was arrested on February 22nd, 1916, and interned at Fort Cautley, subsequently being removed to Motuihi. He was released from the prison ■camp on that island on June 2nd, 1910. Speaking in the House of Representatives on June 21st, the Hon. A. L. Herdman stated that after the internment of the ex-German Consul it was reported twice by Colonel A. G. Talbot, medical bffieer, that if Seegner were confined at Motuihi he would die. He was examined by Surgeon-General Henderson, and it was upon the latter’s report that the Government decided that Seegner should be allowed to go to his own home, where, said Mr Herdman, he would be watched over, either by a soldier or a policeman. The Minister added; “The man is suffering from diabetes and cannot recover, Ido not know whether the House expects the Government to have humane feelings. At any rate the Government har decided that a man, if he must die, should he allowed to die in his own home.”

Seegner first came to Auckland in 1884. He was born in the south, of Germany, and is 69 years of ago. When the war broke out he stated that as he had been naturalised for 30 years ho intended to assume his rights as a British subject.