OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED.
THE MOEWE'S CAPTIVES. Sixty British, mostly old sailors of the mercantile marine, and 500 French soldiers from various Swiss interment camps, recently left Berne for home (says the "Daily Mail.") The sailors were men who had been in the Otaki or in the hold of the raider Moewe during the fight with the Otaki. Others belonged to trawlers. All were looking like fish out of water in their khaki camp clothes. The first officer of Captain. Fryatt's steamer Brussels and the carpenter of 1 the same ship were still spick and span in.,their navy blue, having managed to save .an extra suit to get back to England .in. "Yes, they've treated us well in Switzerland," said another, who was one of a batch that had been cured of arterio-, sclerosis (thickening of the arteries) at 1 Leysin. "After living in Brandenburg < Camp on four'ounces of black bread and two pints of cabbage water a day, with plenty of what the Germans call 'arbeit' (work) thrown in, we were about ready for a little tour in Switzerland." They all looked odd and ill.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1918, Page 8
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185OTAKI'S CREW RELEASED. Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1918, Page 8
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