THOUSANDS ESCAPING
ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR
LONDON, September 12. Several thousand British, French, and Greek prisoners escaped from a camp at Bergamo, and are now in the streets of Como, northern Italy, where the Germans are expected hourly, says the Swiss telegraphic news agency. The Berne correspondent of the "New York Times" says that more than 300 British, American, French, and Dominion prisoners of war have crossed the Swiss frontier at Chiasso from Italy. The prisoners said that they were the advance guard of thousands more who were escaping with Italian help from the invading Germans. They added that they had been transported from camps at Bergamo and Erba in special trains and trucks. The Exchange Telegraph Agency's Zurich correspondent states that Air Marshal Kesselring has been ordered to transfer to Germany all Allied war prisoners in Italy who can be reached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 64, 13 September 1943, Page 5
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