ANOTHER SEA EPIC

Evening Star, Issue 23444, 8 December 1939, Page 7

ANOTHER SEA EPIC

ESCAPE OF POLISH SUBMARINE RUSSIAN GUARD OVERPOWERED • PERILOUS HUNT IN THE SKAGERRACK LONDON, December 7. (Received December 8, at 11.20 a.m.) The remarkable story of the Orzel’s escape began at Tallinn (Estonia), where it was interned after outwitting the German Fleet, and the captain taken to hospitaP on September .15. AU maps andl books were removed except one containing tlio navigating lights in the Baltic. A twenty-year-old sub-lieutenant, knowing nothing of navigation, led a small band of the crew, overpowered the guards, ordered the men to action stations, and ran out of the harbour. Russian and! German planes and warships hunted the Orzcl for days, and food was scarce. The most perilous part of the journey lay through the Skagerrack, where they discovered that the channel was not deep enough to permit them to dive. They crossed the channel in the darkness under the noses of three German destroyers. It took three weeks to cross the North Sea.

An earlier message stated that the Polish submarines Ilk and Orzel escaped from the Baltic and had joined the British Navy.

WESTERN FRONT MINOR OPERATIONS GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 7. (Received December 8, at 10:30 a.m.) The French official communique states that during the night there was marked activity by patrols on either side, with consequent artillery reaction. The Paris radio, amplifying the communique, says enemy attacks were more violent overnight, obviously seeking prisoners, but they were unsuccessful. A Nazi raid was repulsed west of tho Vosges. The Germans are continually using minnewerfers on the Wissembourg sector, where the French beat back a new attack. There is no change generally on the whole front. ,

URGENT INTERVIEW VDN PAPEK AND SARAOOGLU NATURE OF TALK NOT DISCLOSED LONDON, December 7. Reuter’s Istanbul correspondent reports that von Papon went south for an urgent interview with the Turkish

Minister for Foreign Affairs (Bay Saracoglu), with whom he talked for 30 minutes. Tho nature of the talk was not disclosed.