BACK ON SOMES ISLAND.
.•GERMAN CONSUL KE-INTERXED. On Thursday morning (says the Wellington Times') Eberhaid Focke, the former Consul General in Wellington, was re-interned on Somes Island, where he spent some time in captivity earlier in the war. The news of his arrest spread very rapidly, and there was mi interested little assemblage on the wharf to witness.his departure for the island. I The launch conveying the prisoner and his guard of three soldiers left about 10 o'clock. The Government has vouchsafed no explanation for the re internment of the ex-Consul. He was interned on Somes Island for a period soon after the war began, and was subsequently released on the'bond of two well-known citizens. It has not yet transpired what ha l , happened, or 'whether anything at all has happened since then to bring about his it-internment. "Is it true, as repotted in the city, tc dav, that Hen- Focke has been interned?" asked Mi J Vigor Brown (Xapier) in the House of Representatives. "I think the report is probably correct," replied the Minister for Defence (Hon. J. Allen). Mr»-\Vilfonfc "At hwtl u
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1916, Page 2
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184BACK ON SOMES ISLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1916, Page 2
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