HELD UP BY WARSHIP
REVOLVER SHOTS FIRED TWO PEOPLE APPREHENDED (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LISBON, February 15 An Allied warship' stopped the Highland Princess 200 miles from Lisbon and sought a man and a woman. The man is reported to have refused to go on the warship and fired a number of revolver shots. Later the couple were led away. They were travelling to South America on forged passports. The liner Colonial arrived without ten of the fifteen Germans who embarked for Europe from African ports. They were members of the crew of the Rufldji, which took refuge at Beira after the outbreak of war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 7
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