ESCAPE FROM NAZIS
SYDNEY MAN’S JOURNEY MELBOURNE, Oct. 18. Mi'. Jay M. Stanley, a Sydney business man, who escaped :'ro.m Germany after the declaration of war. arrived in Melbourne to-day. Among his experiences of the last six weeks was the sight of a U-boat attack on a British freighter and tlie submarine’s subsequent speedy destruction by two Royal Navy destroyers.
Mr. Stanley was listening to a radio programme with German friends in Innsbruck on September 3. when a sudden pause in the programme was followed by the words: “At this moment the news has just come through that our aggre-sor, England, lias declared war on us.”
Mr. Stanley expected an outburst of cheering or a demonstration of hostility, but the news was greeted by gloomy apathy and apparent indifference. Aided by German friends, Mr. Stanley immediately went to the Brenner Pass, where ho was stripped to the skin by Nazi searchers and questioned for eight, and a half hours before being allowed to cross into Italy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 8
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