HUN SAILORS ESCAPE.
LONDON, September 5. A despatch from Copenhagen, gives the story of German sailors who escaped from the armed' trawlers "run ashore last week on the Jutland coast near Ringk•jobing. and destroyed by British vessels. The Germans, say that four trawlers left early Friday morning m pairs, with great steel nets between them for catching British mines. Two submarines accompanied them. The sailors assert thatthey made several trips successfully, enabling the submarines to pass through the British mine field. While the German sailors were standing on the Danish shore, after their rescue, a German warship approached and signalled orders to the sailors to embark m Danish fishing boats and proceed to the warship. They refused, and the commander of tho warship sent a motor boat to fetch them. This : boat capsized. Its crew was saved by fishermen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 5
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