STORY OF WAR-TIME ESCAPE
BRITISH SUBMARINE COMMANDER’S ADVENTURE. COPENHAGEN, Juno 26. Captain Lavton, commander of tho British squadron which arrived at Copenhagen yesterday, has told tho story of his escape from internment at the Marino Barracks, Copenhagen, after his submarine, El 3, was sunk by the Germans in August, 1915. He gave the requisite throe days’ notice of withdrawing his word of honor not_ to at* tempt to escape, and on tho night of October 30 went to bed early, ostensibly because of influenza. Ho hastily put on an old uniform of a Danish sailor while tho guard was on an errand, descended from the window by the aid of a rope, and passed through the kitchen, tho cook pretending not to see him. Ho negotiated tho docks and swam the canal, and then took the ferry across the harbor to the centre of Copenhagen, where _ a Norwegian friend was waiting for him with civilian clothes. Captain Lavton reached Bergen and joined a British submarine feu teen days after his escape.
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Evening Star, Issue 18714, 16 August 1924, Page 10
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