SENT TO SOMES ISLAND
GERMAN OWNER OF YACHT. SORRY PEOPLE LED INTO WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association i NAPIER. February 12. On the first stage of a journey which will end in his internment on Somes Island, Wellington. Captain George Debbern, owner of the yacht To Rapunga, left Napier this morning. He was taken into custody by the police and military authorities last nigth under the emergency regulations concerning, aliens. Captain Dibbern. who is a German by birth, arrived unexpectedly at Napier on ‘January 25 after crossing the Pacific in company with Miss Eileen Morris. Napier. Since then the Te Rapunga has been sealed and its use forbidden to the owner. Discussing the possibility of his interment several days ago. Captain Dibbern said he felt it his duty to bring Miss Morris back to her people in Napier because of there being so much danger abroad. He did not relish the idea of internment but if the authorities considered it necessary for men to be interned he would have no complaints. He was sorry the German people had been led into war. but hiknew that some day the world would come nearer again to the ideal of true internationalism.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 8
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198SENT TO SOMES ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 8
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