EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOIT
London, January 15. Paris reports an extraordinary exploit by which 703 inhabitants of Liege escaped to Holland. They got possession of an old tug and drifted in the night down the swollen. Meuso despite tho sentries andl all sorts of obstacles, including cables across the river. The pilot was protected by-armour-plating. The passengers remained below, and thus escaped tho machine-gun fire of the German sentries.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2979, 17 January 1917, Page 5
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69EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOIT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2979, 17 January 1917, Page 5
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