DRIFT IN NORTH SEA
TWO GERMAN FLYERS WHITBY LANDING (Reed. Oct. 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. Further messages concerning the two German airmen who were to-day reported to have been washed ashore at Whitby in a collapsible rubber dinghy state that the Germans had been drifting helplessly in the North Sea since Tuesday evening. Leaving his wounded companion in the boat ashore, the other German struggled up a cliff 200 ft. high and entered a railway tunnel, where he encountered a civil guard. The aviator inquired whether he was near the Firth of Forth. He said he had a comrade below.
A rescue party carried the wounded man to the top of the cliff on a stretcher.
The prisoners were both aged 22 years. They said that two other members of the crew were killed during the raid.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 7
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