BESIEGED IN KAMPALA
King Escaped In Taxi fN.Z.P.A.-Reuter — Copyright' LONDON. June 26. The Kabaka of Buganda said today he escaped from thousands of troops besieging his palace in Kampala last month by driving into the jungle in a taxi. The Kabaka (king). Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa. disappeared after his palacwas occupied by troops of Uganda Premier, Dr. Milter Obote, on May 24. He appeared in Bunin,'' nearly a month later am flew to Britain to take refute In an exclusive front-pigt account in the "Sunday Tele graph” the 41-year-old kabaka said he injured his back is climbing over a palace wall, but hailed a taxi and drove into the jungle on the firit stage of his escape.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31097, 28 June 1966, Page 14
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