A KIEL SENSATION
GERMAN PRISONERS' PASSAGE
"BREACH OF SOVEREIGNTY."
(Received December 11, 2.30 p.m.)
BERLIN, 7th December. A semi-official report states that while the British steamer St. Helena waa anchored at the Holtenau Locks, in the Kiel Canal, a man aboard escaped, and a British patrol pursued and fired on him. German troops oocupied the locks, and police from Kiel boarded the steamer. They found on board German prisoners of war en route to Danzig to be forcibly incorporated in the Polish Legion. They had been selected from prisoners' camps in England on account of their Polish names. .
It was pointed out that the men were in German waters and therefore were no longer prisoners. The captain of the St. Heleta, under protest, released six hundred who did not wish to remain, and about fifty or a hundred remained and proceeded to Danzig.
The German Government has protested vigorously to the Inter-Allied Naval Commission against the infraction of German sovereignty and of the armistice involved by the passage of the steamer through tha canal with German prisoners, and the use of firearms by the crew.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 140, 11 December 1919, Page 8
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185A KIEL SENSATION Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 140, 11 December 1919, Page 8
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