"STOP AT PUB."
SAYS CRASHED NAZI. HE KNEW THE DISTRICT. (Special.) LOXDOX, Xovember 10. A lorry driver was taking a crashed firman pilot into Newport. Isle of Wight, when his passenger seid- "Will you pull up at the Blacksmiths Arms at the top of the bill ? I conld do with a drink." Harold Blow, the lorry driver, told this story after he had "picked up the pilot, a lieutenant, 6ft 2in tall, who had iMled out. "I asked him how lie knew whero he «as. and he replied that lie had often heen to the island and knew everv inch <>f it, - ' said Blow. "He aU said that he know Southaiitpton well, as he ii<nl to there in liners before the war. '"I drove him to my home and gave liiin a dinner l.e<-au*e he he %va.< very hungry. He thanked me for I lie fo<Hl and then I telephoned the iwUce aud the military came for him." j
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 310, 31 December 1940, Page 8
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