ESCAPE ATTEMPT FAILS
GERMAN SAILORS’ ORDEAL.
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
LONDON, November 3.
The “Daily Mail” says: A lifeboat, containing three German sailors, who were helpless, being all ill from cold and hunger, drifted into the Firth of Forth. The sailors had attempted to escape, in darkness, from a Scottish island port, where their crew had been detained. They had only the stores that normally are stowed in a lifeboat. They tried for several days to cross the North Sea, despite the prevalence of storms ,and currents, but they finally gave up. They were then carried by a current back to Scotland, after having six days of freedom.
They have been handed over to the military, and interned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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