FOUR ESCAPES
GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR
ALL BEEN FOR LOVE Herman Flotner, 27 year old German prisoner of war, believed to have set up a record for escapes from English camps, walked off the liner Franconia in Liverpool surrounded by a watchful military escort. He made four escapes in one month. His last bid for freedom ended not bn the Continent but in America. For Flotner’s escapes have all been for love. * Interoffizier Flotner, ex-law student, was captured four years ago. He was sent to work in Canada, where he fell in love with a Canadian girl. Last February he was forced to leave her when his contingent came to England. Pie went to work at once planning his return. Three times in April he got away—once as far as Ireland—only to be caught. Then he was successful in getting to London, where he boarded the Empire Yukon, stowed away in a lifeboat, and lived on the emergenc}' rations. When the Empire Yukou called at New York on her way to Canada Flotner went ashore. He tried to slip through the Customs sheds, but was captured.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 72, 13 January 1947, Page 6
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186FOUR ESCAPES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 72, 13 January 1947, Page 6
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