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ENGLISH GIRL'S ACTION. WAR INCIDENT REVEALED. (Received September IS, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The story of how an English girl residing at Shanghai sheltered Captain Lauterbach, who had escaped from Cocos Island when the Sydney engaged the Emden, is revealed in Lowell Thomas' " Lauterbach of the China Seas," published to-day. Captain Lauterbach tells how after a series of other sensational escapes lie reached Shanghai, where ho met the English girl, daughter of wealthy parents, with whom he had corresponded while he was in a prison camp at Singapore. " I telephoned to her," says the captain, " and she joyfully replied, tolling me to meet her at dark and she would take me to her home. This tall, slender, handsome English girl, with the consent of her parents, smuggled me into her home and gave up her own room where I hid for weeks until I was able to escape to America, and thence to Germany in 1916. She obtained the latest information about the search for mc from the British Embassy."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 11
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