LUCKY AGAIN
ALTMARK PRISONER
GUNNER ON NIAGARA
(Special to the "Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A naval rating who only recently, returned after being a prisonei in the German ship Altmark was aboard the Niagara when it sank. "They told me when I came back from imprisonment in the Altmark that they would give me a nice peaceful job," said Gunner James Daley, gunner on the Niagara. "I have been in two ships in this war and have had both of them sunk under me. Now my mates are calling me a Jonah." The crew of the rescuing liner, as the survivors came aboard, called out jokingly to those in the boats: "Is Daley there?" When they were told •he- was, their reply was: "Well, leave him there. Don't bring him up here." Gunner Daley said that he was an Australian and was on the Tairoa when that ship was captured and sunk by the Admiral Graf Spec in the South Atlantic. After being released from the Altmark he returned to Australia and joined tlie Niagara at Sydney.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 9
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178LUCKY AGAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 9
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