ERHARDT ESCAPES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1923, Page 7

ERHARDT ESCAPES

SENSATION IN GERMANY

FEARS OF MONARCHIST OUT

BREAK.

•. . BERLIN, 15th July. Captain Erhardt, Germany's most dangerous reactionary, escaped from' prison at Leipzig while serving a three years' sentence in connection with the Kapp coup.V The Government has offered twenty-five million marks for his capture, and-also'suspended the director of the prison. Erhardt went to the celli.rs for a cold bath, a privilege granted owing to the intense heat, and when returning he asked to be.allowed to go back to fetch some soap. Instead, he escaped through three, iron doors which had been left open by confederates inside and outside tlie prison.

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(Received 17th July. 11.30 a.m.)

_ ■ BERLIN, 16th July. Ernardts escape has caused a great sensation, in Germany. . Some of the newspapers express the belief that his escape means the signal to get ready for •a- monarchist outbreak. The Vossische' Zeitung declares that' all enemies of the Republic will be encouraged, by the escape, which counts against the" State as miich as a battle lost.