TORPEDOED TWICE
•;r "V: m - • • §|||?•:' -!|!| DOCTOR'S ADVENTOBES PRISONER IN DENMARK ESCAPE MADE TO ENGLAND (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 6 A former resident-of Dunedin, Dr. Lan Chisholm, who was in New York at the outbreak of war, tried three times to reach Britain to offer himself for service. First he was torpedoed and picked up from a cargo ship when on his way to England, via Capetown. He was taken back to New York by way of Canada. ; On his second attempt, he was torpedoed again in a tanker and taken prisoner by a U-boat. The crew was taken to a prison camp in Denmark. Dr. Chisholm escaped from the camp, which he described as a hell, and finally landed in Britain, where he is waiting to be called up for service as a medical officer with the Army.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24268, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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