“PIRACY” PLAN

Press, Volume C, Issue 29602, 26 August 1961, Page 11

“PIRACY” PLAN

Baltic Sea Cruise

(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) BERLIN, August 25. A group of 12 German youths tried to take over the East German pleasure steamer. Bins, while on a Baltic sea cruise with 250 passengers and crew, the East German news agency A.D.N. reported today, the Associated Press said. The youths intended to sail the vessel to a “N.A.T.O. port,” said A.D.N. It did not give the date of the incident. A.D.N. said the crew overpowered the “pirates.” They were later handed over to police and were now facing a court at Rostock. The alleged ringleaders were two students of the West Berlin University living in the East Berlin district of Schmoeckwitz. A.D.N. gave their names as Gerloff and Weichert. In another incident at Travemuende, three teenage members of the crew of an East German Coast Guard cutter overpowered nine shiomates last night to make a bold dash for freedom to West Germany. West German police said the youths, all aged 19. turned small arms on their fellow crew members while on a regular Baltic Sea patrol and headed for Travemuende. the first West German port on the northern end' of the Iron Curtain separating the two Germany's. In a brief struggle, one of the nine resisting sailors was wounded in the foot, police said. As soon as the mutineers jumped on to West German territory, their former shipmates put the boat’s motors into top speed and headed back out to sea