FRENCH DUPED
NEW NINE THOUSAND TON SHIP ESCAPES MANNED BY FEW,ALLIED MARINERS. INCIDENT AT DAKAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 12. After 14 months' internment in Dakar, a handful of Allied mariners sailed out of the strongly-guarded harbour in a new 9000-ton steamer without a crew, says the British United Press. French naval authorities removed the high pressure pipes from the steamer’s engines, but for eight months an Allied engineer secretly moulded dummy pipes. The conspirators assured the French that the steamer's engines would be ruined unless they were started up. When the French replaced the proper pipes the mariners lulled them with an entertainment, after which they handed over the dummy pipes. The Allied seamen later started up the engines and made straight for the net guarding the harbour entrance, just scraping over without fouling the propellers. A French patrolship next day fired on the fleeing steamer, which escaped and met a British destroyer the following morning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 6
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158FRENCH DUPED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 6
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