“Hunt Nazi Who Never Fled Hours After Mate Caught,” Toronto Star. August 22, 1940. Page 02.
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Ottawa Reveals Koche Posed as Guenther Lorentz, Nabbed at Montreal
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POSSE OUT AT CAMP
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A German prisoner of war who escaped from a Northern Ontario camp Monday has been recaptured at Montreal, the defence department announced at Ottawa.
However, in the camp area, mounted police, provincial police and home guards continued their search this afternoon for a prisoner of war who has been sitting in a concentration camp under their hoses since Monday.
Lieut. Werner Koche of the German navy was still being sought as an escaped prisoner at 11:30 this morning, half an hour after Ottawa announced that the man who escaped from the camp had been arrested, and 13 1/2 hours after the fugitive prisoner of war had been caught last night in Montreal.
Koche had been impersonating a fellow Lieutenant Guether Lorentz, in the camp, while Lorentz was fleeing. The man caught at Montreal, Ottawa said, was identified as Lorentz ‘from his handwriting.’
Notification to drop the search had not yet reached the posses.
Rain Hampers Dogs
R.C.M.P. officers here with their highly trained Schnauzer dogs rose at 6.30 a.m. to resume the trail, although the escaped prisoner had already been under arrest since 10 o’clock last night.
The dogs were taken for a tour of the countryside with constables. Shortly after heavy ran began to fall the dogs were introduced to a place of bush which had been searched two days previously. Failing to pick up a trail in the cold and wet, the dogs were returned to their car.
Lorentz faces 30 days in detention when he is returned to the camp. Internment officials said he is subject to the ‘same treatment as would be given to a member of the Canadian Active Service Force in Canada who was placed under disciplinary punishment in a detention room.’ Ordinarily these men are entitled to normal rations.
Punishment Regulated
Punishment of escaped war prisoners is dealt with in the ‘international convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war,’ to which Canada, Great Britain, Germany are subject and were parties, signed at Geneva on July 27, 1929.
Article 50 sets out: “Escaped prisoners recaptured before they have been able to rejoin their own armed forces or to leave the territory occupied by the armed forces which captured them shall be liable only to disciplinary punishment.
‘Prisoners who, after succeeding in rejoining their armed forces or in leaving the territory occupied by the armed forces which captured them, are again taken prisoner shall not be liable to any punishment for their previous escape.’
DOGS TRAIL FUGITIVE
Police yesterday brought trained dog into service in the hunt for aliens who had escaped from Northern Ontario prison camps. Lieut.-Col. McGregor of the R.C.M.P. is shown here with ‘Tell,’ a Schnauzer, used in the search.
