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Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 April 1937Vol. VII, No. 9

Count Von Luckner On

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Visit To South Seas

IT was announced in the newspapers on April 19 that Count Felix von Luckner, the German Lieutenant-com mander of the See Adler (Sea Eagle), whose exploits during the Great War made him a national hero, had departed for Australia and the South Seas in his yacht Bea Devil, on a “propaganda mission for German ideals.”

Major H. S. N. Robinson, general secretary and treasurer of the Melanesian Mission in Sydney, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, by the Mariposa on April 3 to attend the Anglican General Synod at Hamilton.