BRITISH BOARDERS
FIRED ON FROM SHORE. EFFECTIVE REPLY MADE. (Received This Dav, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON. February 18. Some 150 prisoners from the Altmarck left hospital in Leith. Most entrained for their homes in Tyneside, Yorkshire and London. It is revealed that "a tall young officer, with a ready smile," led the boarding party against the Altmarck’. He leapt from the Cossack, waving a revolver and shouting: "Come on, follow me.” The sailors clambered aboard, whereon thirty members of the Admiral Graf Spec's crew, who had been guarding the prisoners, jumped overboard, scrambled to high rocks and began shooting blindly in the direction of the British boarding party. They hit one in the shoulder and it was then that the British fired in retaliation, killing and wounding several.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1940, Page 5
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