TRIED TO ESCAPE
THRE£ DETAINED GERMANS!
SIX DAYS ADRIFT IN BOAT
LONDON, November 2. .-. The "Daily Mail" says that a lif* ; boat containing three German sailors, helpless and ill from cold and hunger, drifted into the Firth of Forth. They had attempted to escape'in the dark* , ness from a Scottish island, port \vher« . they were detained. They had only the stores normallystowed in a lifeboat. They tried for several days to cross the North Sea in spite of storms and currents, but " gave up and were carried by the current to Scotland. After six days of freedom they were handed over to the military authorities and interned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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107TRIED TO ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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