STRANGE STORY
FOREIGN LEGION ESCAPEE. A LONDONER’S EXPERIENCE. RETURN ON LINER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 9, 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 8. Upon the arrival, at Liverpool of the Cunard liner Lancastria from a Mediterranean cruise, a Londoner, Richard Wilkinson, told a . remarkable story of escape from the French Foreign Legion after two unsuccessful attempts. “When the Lancastria was off Algiers I was aboard a French destroyer anchored a mile away,” he said. “L removed my clothes, dived overboard and swam to the liner and climbed up the anchor chain. 1 got aboard through a porthole and concealed myself in a locker. I waited an hour, but intense thirst, due to swallowing salt water, compelled me to reveal myself.” 'The crew provided Wilkinson with clothes and ho was taken to Liverpool and handed over as a stowaway.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 7
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139STRANGE STORY Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 7
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