COLD WAR FORGOTTEN
Mercy Dash To Save Guards (N.Z. Press Assn. — Copyright) LONDON, August 18. Two young Britons travelling overland to Australia miarie a daring dash into East Germany yesterday to rescue two border guards injured by land mines, the “Daily Mirror’’ reported. The two Britons, Philip Dyer, aged 27. and Steve Roase both from London were chatting to the guards through the barbed wire fence. The guards then said goodbye and walked off. They both stepped on land mines. The two Briltons dashed under the wire and carried the guards to hospital with the help of some West German friends. Each of the guards, aged 22, and 27, lost a foot in the blast which occurred near the village of Altenbumsdhila. Mr Roase teamed up with Mr Dyer to work their way overland to Australia. They were staying at an “International friendship” work camp near the border. Tonight the cold war was forgotten while a general and a captain of the East German People’s Police came to the frontier to thank the rescuers, the “Daily Mail” reported.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 12
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