GERMANS' LONG SWIM.
"ESCAPE FROM! SOMES ISLAND. OBJECT TO ROAD WORK. (By Telegraph.—rress Association^ WELLINGTON, this day. Two young Germans. Edwin Balke and Paul Woolf, who had been interned at Somes Island, escaped this /morning by swimming over IJ miles to tPetone, where they surrendered to the j police. They stated that the object of jfeeir escapade was to draw attention Jto the treatment of Germans on the , island. They had, they asserted, been j employed on road work, which they deBclared was only fit for convicts, not {prisoners of war. They appeared little J the worse for their swim in a bleak j southerly breeze. One of them lost his I bundle of clothes, which he had strapped on his back, and he used some of his companion's clothes on landing.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 6
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132GERMANS' LONG SWIM. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 6
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