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...Luckner? Though none of the prisoners could identify the captors, survivors of an Indian Ocean sinking who reached Hong Kong reported that the biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...
Until last week, English readers were in about the same case as the British Admiralty. Unlike his fellow captain Luckner's writings, Captain Nerger's book on his raiding exploits was not generally known outside Germany. The first account in English is by one of his prisoners. Roy Alexander, an Australian wireless operator, spent nine months in one of the two mine compartments which served as brig for the Wolfs sardined, polyglot prisoners (100 when he,arrived, 400 at the peak...
Felix, Count von Luckner, famed Wartime sea raider, sailed from Stettin, Germany in the schooner Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") on a two-year, 16,000-mi. world cruise "not after ships, but out to capture hearts for Germany...
...rigged, commissioned as a training ship in 1922, she was the first commissioned vessel of Germany's post-War navy. In Chicago last week reporters wrote down messages of condolence from her first German commander, the much publicized lecturer, onetime commerce raider, strong-fisted Count Felix von Luckner...
...ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale...