AFTER THREE YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5

AFTER THREE YEARS

YOUNG SAILOR RETURNS (Special P.A. Correspondent.) / ' . LONDON, July 26, Taken prisoner by the Germans in August, 1940, when he-was a 16-year-old sea cadet in the Finnish sailing ship Killoran. it. A. P. Foxley.Gisborne, arrived in London today. He is one of a number of members oi jthe Merchant Navy who were exj changed for the crews of five German merchantmen at Lourenco. Marques. He is the sole New Zealandei to be repatriated from his camp. Foxlev. who is 19, joined the Killoran in June, 1939. She was a grain carrierHe had served on her for 14 months when, on August 10, 1940, when.' she was bound from Buenos Aires tt> Los Palmas, the German auxiliary raider Narvik appeared. She took on the crew and sank the sailing ship by gunfire. "We were in the Narvik for three months," Foxley recalfed. "We were quartered between decks and were only allowed up for half an hour daily. There were the crews from ten other ships in the raider. I, and Chiei Engineer W. Kemp, Wellington, oi the oil tanker Cymbeline, were the only New Zealanders. The Narvik sank four more ships while we; were in her. She would stalk-them by day and then close' in at night and sink them by gunfire and torpedo."