PARTY ARRESTED.
MAKING A FILM.
A COMEDY OF ERRORS.
FIRTH OP FORTH I|ICCEDEWT.
(Special.— By Air MalL)
EDINBURGH, December 4.
Soldiers who guard the shores of Britain cannot afford to take any risks in wartime. This was the experience of a party who, entirely about their lawful business went out in a boat in the Krth M- I , Th ° Party prised three Edinburgh medical etudente, five fishermen and lour Gpo offic . aisj who £
S7 J! J f. rfeSt - Tbe « were lert aboard the yawl. The others were detained in a guardroom for nearly*S checked thelr y were
Their leader, Harry Watt, said: "It was all due to a misunderstanding but the military authorities acted entirely within their rights. It was an amusinfinish to a pretty terrible day. We were all drenched to the skin, most of as were sick, and the party was glum. "Playing pontoon in the guardroom while our clothes were drying was better than swaying about on the Forth." The unit were out to reconstruct the bringing down of a Nazi aeroplane on October 16. The students, good ewimmere, were playing the parts of captured enemy airmen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 5
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