WAR PRISONER’S LUCK
GERMAN SEA CAPTAIN. WON SIXPENNY SWEEPSTAKE. A German sea captain arrived recently at a British port on his way to an internment camp enriched by 255, won in a sweepstake held on board the submarine Truant which brought him to .Britain. The Truant was the submarine which chased the German merchant ship Edmund Hugo Stinnes outside Danish waters. Unable to escape, the ship was scuttled. The captain was taken prisoner. Her job done, the submarine turned foi- home. In the tradition of •’the trade,” her crew had a sixpenny sweepstake on the time of her arrival at the home port. The crew took their tickets, and then thought: “What about the German captain? Would he join in?” He asked to be excused, as he only had a few pfennigs. “Oh, well,” someone said, “now he’s in the ship give him a ticket.” They did, and he won.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 8
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150WAR PRISONER’S LUCK Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 8
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