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TERRIBLE JOURNEY IN SNOW.
CROSSING OF THE PYRENEES.
REVOLUTIONAR Y LEADER'S FEAT
(United Press Association —Copyright)
(Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) PARIS, August 26,
After a terrible journey across the Pyrenees on foot, Senor Juan Casanovas, former presidlent of the Catalan Parliament, arrived here, He eluded the guards posted at his home in Barcelona, where lie was confined, awaiting court-martial, since last Oc toiler, when he was involved in the revolution. He fled to the mountains and began an 18 hours’ climb in snow and darkness. Senor Casanovas told an interviewer: “Do not ask me how I escaped. You do Hot suppose it was easy. Do not ask me where I crossed) the Pyrenees. 1 expected to he stopped at any moment by Customs officers. I heard a shot, followed by a voice saying, ‘Be careful ; these animals are dangerous when wounded.” Two marksmen had mistaken me for a. bear.”
Senor Casanovas injured his knee in a fall six hours before reaching Foix, the first town, in France.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 269, 27 August 1935, Page 5
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