TRANSFER OF INTERNED GERMANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1918, Page 5

TRANSFER OF INTERNED GERMANS.

FROM MOTUIHI ISLAND TO NARROW NECK CAMP. Auckland, Dec. 17. The interned Germans were transferred from Motuihi Island to Narrow Neck Camp yesterday afternoon. The exGovernor of Samoa (Schultz) drove from the wharf to camp in a motor-car, and the main body marched under guards. A few hoots greeted Schultz at one point, otherwise there was no demonstration. The prisoners looked remarkably healthy and well fed. At the head of the march- wag Count von Luckner, who took no part in the laughter and joking in which the other internees indulged. When the photographer was taking a "snap" von Luckner raised the coat on his arm in front of his face. What struck the spectators most was the amazing amount of goods and chattels which accompanied the prisoners. Several Defence Department wagons were engaged throughout the day conveying these effects from the wharf to the camp. At the wharf the luggage was landed on the wagons by the prisoners, but at camp the diity 6f taking it off fell to the native soldiers. The hut formerly used by the Y.J&C.A. has been set aside, it is understood, as the abode of the exGovernor of. Samoa. Early in the day, It is reported, it was syggested to certain non-commisaioned officers in the camp that they might get a party of native soldiers to prepare this hut for its occupant, but the cable message that morning telling of the mutilation of a British prisoner in Germany was regarded as sufficient reason for no effort being made in the direction indicated.