NORWAY'S SAILORS
ESCAPE FROM NAZI SHIPS
SWIM THROUGH ICY WATERS
Tlie 8.8.C.'s listeners in occupied Europe have just heard how some of their fellow-sufferers regained their freedom. Seven Norwegian .sailors on a German-controlled, ship jumped overboard in Swedish waters and swam for shore. A storm was raging, the water was icy. Some of them had long battles with mountainous seas. But the prize was worth the hazards. They landed on various islands —free. men.
That incident is by no means an isolated one. Many hundreds have escaped that was' during the past few months. Norway's: sailors, are forccd to serve, but even Nazi vigilance is unable to keep them aboard while the ships are within swimming distance, of land. Thus . Norwegian seamen have added immeasurably to the Germans' transport difficulties and to their feeling of insecurity in Norway. The. sea is their vital link with Germany but Norway's sailors refuse to be enslaved cogs in the'Gorman' trans-
port service
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 72, 14 May 1943, Page 3
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159NORWAY'S SAILORS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 72, 14 May 1943, Page 3
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