_German Officers Escape from Spain in a Sailing Vessel_
_Told by Frederic Lees_
The Spanish Premier, Count Romanones, recently stated that the
sensational story of the escape from Spain in a sailing vessel of
a number of interned German officers, as briefly reported in _El
Liberal_, of Madrid, is officially confirmed. With extraordinary
assurance, the fugitives set out to sail right round the coast of
Great Britain and reach a Belgian port, but the elements and the
British Navy intervened, and the audacious scheme miscarried. The
author's private sources of information have enabled him to throw
light on a number of episodes which, in the Spanish and German
newspapers, were intentionally left obscure. Related in the _Wide
World Magazine_.