ERLANGEN’S ESCAPE
PACIFIC ISLE HIDE-OUT TREES FELLED FOR FUEL CHILEAN PORT REACHED (Reed. Dec. 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. A German radio broadcast told a r. markable story of the wanderings c the German ship Erlangen, whic : quitted New Zealand for Austral.:; late in August. The captain learned of the dutbrer’of war and headed for South America He hid for a month at an uninhabih ’ Pacific island while the crew felled 4”) tons of firewood for fuel. Even th • was insufficient, and so sails mac ? from- tarpaulins were hoisted.
The Erlangen reached a Chile? n port on December 12. >
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20124, 19 December 1939, Page 5
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