WOMAN STOWAWAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20635, 22 October 1938, Page 12

WOMAN STOWAWAY.

THREE DAYS IN BUNKER (From a Correspondent) LONDON, Sept. 19 A woman’s wanderings in Europe, ind her final arrival in London after three days in a ship's bunker without food, were described at Old Street. A nominal fine of 10s was imposed on Rachel Rosenberg, 36, of Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, for having landed in the United Kingdom without leaving of the immigration officer. In a statement to the police Rosenberg said that she believed she was oorn in Petrograd—now Leningrad. she was married when she was 15. ind her husband, whose surname she oad now forgotten, but whose Christian name was Lieb, was killed fighting against the Bolshevists. In 1928 she went to Berlin, where she set up business as a dressmaker. On the advent of Hitler in 1933 she fled to Poland, and afterwards went to Antwerp. “You Are Safe Now” She remained there for two years, out without registering or doing any K-ork. About a year ago she found that she had to leave there. She went to the harbour with Ihe ntention of throwing hrrself into the ;ea. but a man asked her what she wanted to do, and said that for £lO

he would help her to get out of the country. “He put me in a bunker where they put their things,” the statement continued. “There I remained for three days. I did not eat anything all the time, and only had a few drinks i of water. “Un the third day, in the middle of the night, a sailor came into the bunker and said to me. 'The worst is over. You are safe now. Y'ou are in London.’ ” The statement added that the sailor saw her ashore, and she was directed to the Jewish quarter. Had a Hard Life Answering Mr Alfred Kerstein for Rosenberg, a police officer said that she had lived here quite respectably and was in no sense an undesirable. The magistrate, Mr Metcalfe, said that the woman • had certainly had a hard life, and come through terrible privations. “I do not suppose that anybody in this country is anxious to hound a woman of this kind out of it. ’ he added. "1 am going to make a recommendation for deportation, hut the chances are that nothing will he done.