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...time a rescue ship had picked up the tired, haggard little colony, taken them safely on to Australia, the garbled accounts had begun to make sense. They traced the voracious course of an armed Nazi merchantman with its prison and supply ships, the Manyo Maru and the Tokyo Maru, which had been shooting up Pacific shipping lanes for weeks, bagging at least ten New Zealand, British, French and Norwegian vessels...
East of Singapore. Earlier victims told of shuttling back & forth across the South Seas in their below-decks prison, while they heard the guns above them hammering away at new game. The Turakina went down about twilight, bathed in flames, but not until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members...
...Germans carried recording equipment to make transcriptions of prisoners' comments for propaganda uses. A microphone was hidden in the women's prison to pick up stray bits of information. Officers pumped them for details on sailing dates and destinations. When a diminishing food supply forced the Germans to land some of the prisoners at Emirau, the men were ordered to sign a declaration pledging themselves to noncombatancy for the rest of the war. Those who refused were kept on the prison ship, along with the crews of three other vessels...
...Hauptmann Joachim Heinrich Schlich-ting. Hauptmann Schlichting probably got his money's worth in British goods, but the Government kept the dollars. What made the British happier still was the chance to advertise that Air Marshal Milch had a son-in-law in a British prison and U. S. dollars in the bank...
Charles D. Morgan '06, an American citizen and a Captain in the British Army, is now languishing in a German prison camp, it was disclosed yesterday by the United States oinbassy...