A SMART CAPTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2813, 3 July 1916, Page 6

A SMART CAPTURE

GERMAN OFFICERS WITH MAP, COMPASS, AND MONEY. >■

Two German officers were clevcrlj captuTed in Manchester recently by aspecial constable. They had escaped from the internment camp at Handforth, Cheshire, and woro in custody before the news was received by the police, and they had been missed from the camp. One of them, Sub-Lieutenant Johl, is a survivor of the Blucherj the oEEer, Lieutenant Chan, is believe to .belong to tho Bavarian heavy artillery. _ ' " When Special Constable Thorp, headmaster of a Gorton School, was on his beat about half-past one he heard two men, walking along tho street, speak in German. He spoke to them, and on the plea of offering them- help lured them into tho Gorton. Police Station, where they were detained as suspects. Soon afforwards the police were, informed of the escape of two officers from Handforth, and tho captives were identified. They were .taken back to camp under escort. ' The officers had a sketch map of the Manchester to Holyhead route, a coinpass, a time-table, which inoluded the train and boat service for Manchester, Holyhead, and Dublin, and some money, They professed to be London detective officers, and each carried a spurious metal token suggostine that they were attached to Scotland Yard.