GERMAN CAPTAIN
TRIES TO SCUTTLE SHIP. PREVENTED BY CREW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) .LONDON. November 16. When the captain of the Leander, the German steamer masquerading as a Russian, which was seized by a British
cruiser off the West Coast of England, after disabling the Leander’s engines, tried Io scuttle the ship, the crew beat him up and refused to open the seacocks, saying they did not want to lose their personal belongings. A sailor knocked down the captain, whom he held struggling on deck. When the cruiser sighted the Leander the latter was drifting without fuel in a heavy sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 6
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105GERMAN CAPTAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 6
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