EVADED SLAVERY.
ARMOURERS SEIZE GERMAN TUG AND ESCAPE TO HOLLAND. The Maastricht journal. “Les Nouvelles,” learns that forty-two Liege armourers took by assault, a German tug moored in the Oise Canal.. They succeeded, with the complicity of the German crew, consisting of the captain. two sailors, and a pilot, who were in military service, in passing from the canal into the Oise, and then steamed full speed towards Holland. At Eysden, on the frontier, the boar ran into the steel cable laid by the Germans, but slid over it wither: ■. breaking it, and saiclr reached poitiDntch territory. All the forty-two men have received warning of their impending deportation to Germany.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 February 1917, Page 5
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110EVADED SLAVERY. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 February 1917, Page 5
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