RANGITANE STEWARD
- y , / ESCAPE FROM GERMANY : (0.C.) LONDON, August-13. '* Formerly a steward in the Rangitanfi*,; Daniel Andrew Moriarty, aged 20, ha*. _ arrived in Liverpool' after escaping from :: the Nazis in Northern France, - i After the Rangitane was sunt tost November Moriarty, with 90 other „ prisoners, sf ent nine weeks 1 to' the stifling hole of one .of the raiders. - ; was taken to France* and after nine days in a prison camp in Bordeaux h$ ... was put on a train for the RhineUuuL: : One night as the armed Nazi- guard s 1 ; slept, he lowered a window and threw. himself out. Had he been bigger,; he; ' says, he would have stuck. He walked? * for 17 hours, avoiding roads until -he/ reached a farm in occupied France,' ‘' where a woman gave ,him food, money* maps, and told him how to get to un*i occupied territory. For 14 days he- . tramped through fields • and village?,, , his clothes in rags, his boots-worft : through, , When he reached Unoccupied without papers he; was sent to .a centration camp, but he escaped and, with a shipmate from the Rangitane. whom he met on the Way, wandered: ; for another fortnight before he,teßched - *> safety. .
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23452, 6 October 1941, Page 9
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