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...Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole a rowboat, paddled across to Ogdensburg, N. Y. There he was picked up by police on the tip of a suspicious service-station operator...
...dark night last week the M-1 rode at anchor off Dun Laoghaire in Dublin Bay. The crew, except for the watch, were in their bunks. From somewhere among the shadowy pierheads, 20 yards off, a rowboat put softly out, pulled alongside. Three men with the daring of none but I. R. A. itself leaped aboard, and set upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first...
...Caribbean was her ultimate destination. A few hours out of Newburgh, ice was beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked...
Fields of ice now surrounded them; the boat was filling rapidly. Out they all jumped onto the ice. The rowboat bobbed away...
They sank all ships bigger than a rowboat in Petsamo harbor, burned villages, slaughtered livestock, rather than let the Russians have them. Reported in flames were the Canadian-owned mining properties at Nickel City...