MISSING YACHT FOUND
GERMAN PRISONERS ABOARD LONDON, August 22. The master of a channel steamer reported that the French police had located the racing yacht Lalun which was stolen from Dover in Calais harbour. The crew, including a woman, were arrested. 1 Reporting the arrival of the yacht Lalun in Calais Harbour, the “Daily Mail” says that as a Freilch police patrol boat left the dockside to. inspect her a number of German prisoners dived overboard. » The police arrested three other prisoners and one woman who remained aboard.
EARLY REPORTS CORRECTED ONLY TWO PERSONS ABOARD <Ree. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21. There were qnly two persons aboard the Lalun when the French authorities boarded the yacht at Calais, says the “Evening News.” They were, a member of the German Afrika Korps, Alexander Todt and Mrs ‘Dorothy Blake, whose husband is a Twickenham^ postman. She told the “Evening News correspondent that they separated three years ago. Contrary to earlier reports, it is now stated that there were no other Germans aboard the Lalun, which the French confiscated. The German and Mrs Blake were taken into custody and will be returned to England under escort. The couple intended to go to Germany, but in bad weather lost then way and sailed into Calais.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 267, 23 August 1946, Page 3
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