A Captive on a German Raider (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII WE had been encouraged by the Germans to think?they had in fyact de- definitely told us?that the "Igotz Mendi" with us on board was to be sent to Spain when the Germans released her. This news greatly rejoiced the Spaniards, who had naturally become very depressed, more especially as they knew that if no news were received of them for six weeks after the date on which they were due at Colombo, a requiem mass would, according to Spanish custom, be said for them in their churches at home. On December twenty-ninth, all of which and the previous day, together with many succeeding days, were spent in transferring our cargo coal to our bunkers, the Germans on our ship and on the "Wolf" ostentatiously bade each other good-bye, and letters from prisoners on the "Wolf" were brought tous to post in Spain when we landed. The idea of the "Wolf" remaining out till the war was over in six months was abandoned, and we were told she would now go home to Germany. Why we were told this, the first time we had been informed of the "Wolf's" plans, we never knew, except that it might have been an excuse to keep dragging us over the seas, for the "Wolfv would never have allowed us to get ashore before she reached Germany. Now that we knew the Germans always intended taking us to Germany, it is obvious that it was quite immaterial to them if they told us their plans. They wished to keep us, and having told us of their future plans, it is plain they could not afford to release us. But at that time we really began to think we were going to be landed in Spain, and the news raised the spirits of all of us. Those who had been learning Spanish before now did so with redoubled energy, and some of us even marked out on a pocket atlas our railway route from Bilbao or Cadiz?for the Spanish Ca...