ESCAPE FROM HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27094, 18 July 1953, Page 7

ESCAPE FROM HUNGARY

Refugee Lawyer’s

Account

LONDON. July 16. A Hungarian lawyer, making a longplanned escape with his wife to Austria, hurled his six-year-old daughter to safety over an eight-foot barbedwire frontier fence when a grenade exploded near them, he told reporters in Vienna today. His wife, gravely wounded, lost a leg, but doctors today expressed hope for the first time that she may survive.

Dr. Geza Kapus said he was formerly a Budapest lawyer, but two years ago was transported to Vamosoyoerk in the Heves county of Northern Hungary. After two years’ preparation he and his family left for Budapest by car last week, and made by a devious route for the frontier. On Sunday, July 3. they left the car and did the last 10 miles on foot.

They had to dump their baggage and carry the tired child through the forests. In the last few hundred yards, said Dr. Kapus. they had to crawl through a minefield.

“When I saw the barbed-wire fence only two yards away I thought we were safe.” he said. “But suddenly there was a loud explosion, and my wife screamed. I threw the child '’’•icklv over the eight-foot wire fence. Two shots rang out after the explosion. I grabbed mv wife, who was half conscious, and dragged her through the wire. We were safe in Austria. “From there I moved her as best I could until we reached a place where we could get transport to Vienna.