WOMAN FOILS CAPTAIN OF SUBMARINE.
-•'..'' LONDON, November 16. i ..The' -story \ oj; a .bow -an- American woman's actfon ■ "saved important VBritish j dispatches when the. "Vessel, on which they were being": carried to Malta was held up by an. Austrian submarine was told to-'day "by- Captain Stanley Wilson, who . >yas ' carrying the dispatches and who himself was taken prisoner by the Austrians" 'and' only recently released. ••Captain'. Wil-on .told . the, -military,' C^OUrt .which is investigating his capture that .lye i threw ' 'one. . bag' overboard, ' but that to his horror fit: did not -sink;,-- as' he -supposed it would. .*■ At t_nV juncture he- was approached by : ahy American woman travelling lon tbe steamer; who offered "to '.take charge of the other 'bags, saying she wished, to do something for' England.' ;■.;*...-. .-■.*.■ * .-.--•-.' I /.It' was a great responsibility,'.' said Captain Wilson, "but I : took it and any action wits justified," as the bags; reached - London. '.- r '. ":y ..*.-. 'The hags were hidden by the American woman until the Austrians had concluded their search of the steamer.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19180102.2.19.18
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14492, 2 January 1918, Page 3
Word Count
172WOMAN FOILS CAPTAIN OF SUBMARINE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14492, 2 January 1918, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in