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Title: Five Months on a German Raider
Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'
Author: Frederic George Trayes
Release Date: September 14, 2005 [eBook #16690]
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FIVE MONTHS ON A GERMAN RAIDER
Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the "Wolf"
by
F. G. TRAYES
Formerly Principal of the Royal Normal College
Bangkok, Siam
London
Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd.
72 Oxford Street
W. 1
1919.
[Illustration: THE AUTHOR BEFORE CAPTIVITY AND WHEN RELEASED.]
DEDICATED
IN DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE DANISH NAVAL AUTHORITIES,
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, LIFEBOATMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES,
AND THE KINDLY INHABITANTS OF SKAGEN, DENMARK,
WHO SECURED FOR US, AND WELCOMED US BACK
TO FREEDOM, AND WHO BY THEIR OVERWHELMING
KINDNESS AND HEARTY HELP
AND HOSPITALITY LEFT WITH US SUCH
KIND AND HAPPY MEMORIES
OF THEIR COUNTRY AND
COUNTRYMEN AS
WILL NEVER BE
FORGOTTEN.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE CAPTURE OF THE "H
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