PACIFIC SHIPPING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 6

PACIFIC SHIPPING

EVIDENCE OF ESPIONAGE RAIDERS WELL INFORMED. STATEMENT BY RANGITANE CAPTAIN. :iy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright • Received This Dav. 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. Special trains equipped with every comfort are carrying the Nazi raider victims to their destinations. Among them is Captain H. Upton, of the Rangitane. He told an interviewer: "It does seem certain that the Pacific raiders have been getting effective intelligence from someone, and they may be getting it by wireless from neutral vessels. The raiders' recent activities have been based on sound information," Other survivors said the raiders had known all about the cargoes on the various vessels (hey sank.

HONG KONG STORY BRITISH SHIP CONVERTED INTO RAIDER. VON LUCKNER LN COMMAND. (Received This Day. 11.30 a.m.) MONG KONG. January 3. i It is reliably staled that one of the j German raiders is the former British I ship Glengarry, which was seized at i Copenhagen and sailed to the Pacific l under the British flag, commanded by Count von Luekner. She has been mas- , querading as a Japanese ship and carries a plane. (There is no British ship named the Glengarry in the official list.)

DENIAL IN BERLIN (Received This Day 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. January 3. The Berlin High Command professed to know nothing of reports that Count von Luekner is commanding a Pacific raider.