“SEE ADLER’S” COMMANDER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 81, 27 June 1927, Page 12

“SEE ADLER’S” COMMANDER

CRUISE OF THE WORLD MAY VISIT NEW ZEALAND Count Felix von Luckner, who commanded the German raider See Adler in the Pacific during the war, is now making a tour of the world in the fullrigged ship Vaterland. His mission is to exhibit German goods at the ports visited, and to give lectures on the war from the German point of view. Captain Mawson. master of the Tt.M.S. Makura, which reached Sydney recently, met Count von Luckner ar San Francisco. By a strange coincidence Lieutenant Kirscheiss, who was the navigating officer of the See Adler, was also at San Francisco at the time, in command of another German ship. Both men are well known by Captain Mawson, who had command of the steamer Talune, which took the crew bf the See Adler from Fiji to Auckland, where they were interned on Motuihi Island. Count von Luckner and Lieutenant Kirscheiss escaped from the island in a launch, and then captured the scow Moa, taking the crew prisothers. They were eventually recaptured by the steamer Iris, however, and repatriated. It is possible that Count von Luckner will visit Xew Zealand or Australia in the Vaterland.

Part of the news on this page appeared in the Late Edition of THE SUN on Saturday.