The Elusive Count von
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Luckner
THE world’s sensational newspapers are still amusing themselves —and others —with speculation concerning that elusive German sailor, Count von Buck ner. During the past 12 months we have had him respectively directing raiders in the Pacific, commanding a raider in the Atlantic, hunting wild boar in the Hartz mountains of Ger many, and repining in a German con centration camp, because of anti-Nazi beliefs.
The latest report, emanating from the Manila representative of the National Broadcasting Corporation of America, says that the British and Dutch navies have been ordered to capture Count von Buckner, who is commanding 10 armed merchant raiders in the South Pacific.
Well, at the end of the war this shrewd old Count should be able to produce a best seller entitled “Vere Vos I, Eh?”— or something like that.