The Archive · 1939

Three German Prisoners Escape in Scotland

Young U-Boat Men Caught By Police in Scotland

London, Nov. 18.

Three youthful German prisoners, who managed to make their escape today from an internment camp in East Scotland, were found in a country district in the south of Scotland this evening. They are now in the custody of the police, The prisoners, who are were penniless and wi! 1 They cannot speak English, At the lime of their escape, they were not in uniforms, but were wearing khaki clothes It is understood that the prisoners made a getaway through the barbed wire fence round the camp.—Reuter,

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