SEA FOILS ESCAPE
GERMANS IN LIFEBOAT SIX DAYS' ADVENTURE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 4, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 3. The Daily Mail says that a lifeboat containing three German sailors, helpless and ill from cold and hunger. drifted into the Firth of Forth. They had attempted to escape in the darkness from a Scottish island poi) where their crow was detained. They had only the stores normally slowed in a lifeboat. They tried tor several days to cross the North Sea despite the storms and currents, but gave up the struggle and were car-
ried by the current to Scotland. After six days of freedom, they were handed over to the military forces and interned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 14
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