NOT ALLOWED TO LAND

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25706, 19 January 1949, Page 6

NOT ALLOWED TO LAND

NAZI PARATROOPER STOWS AWAY

ARRIVAL ON JUGOSLAV STEAMER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 18. Hans Heinrich, aged 24, a former German paratrooper who is not wanted in Australia or New Zealand, lies in a tiny, isolated cabin on 1 the Jugoslav steamer Partizanka until the ship sails again to-night. Speaking in German to-day he told an interviewer how, on returning to his home at Miglenburg, in the Russian zone, from a prisoner-of-war camp, he found his parents dead. Conditions were terrible. He escaped to Bremen and bribed British seamen to smuggle him aboard a freighter for Alexandria. Later, at Port Said, he was arrested by the British police and taken to Cyprus. There he met his fiancee who, with her mother, intended sailing for Australia to join her lather who had become a naturalised British subject. “I had no chance of sailing legally,” he said, “so friends carried me aboard the Partizanka in a cabin trunk to my sweetheart’s cabin. I was discovered three days later. My fare was paid, but I was not allowed to land. I want to marry and become a carpenter, also a British subject if they will have me. Now I must return to Germany and start over again. I shall do it properly and get my papers.” He is well treated aboard the Partizanka at sea and is allowed his freedom. He rarely speaks to others.