EX-PRISONERS BEACH SAFETY
■NOC.-lU® -sum. LONDON, Jan. 5. A gaafty 'Of three Allied officers and 60 anen^ including Britishers, New ZealanifeßSj .and South Africans, reached the j&jiliiesl lines in Italy after trekking for tl.rroe aaKaath's ever :the mountains of Yugoslavia,, reports Renter's Cairo cor- \ responcte'ai. A South' African, Major Charles Ballentine, w^io was lak-en prisoner at Tobruk, saui that he and others were* being taken- to Germany when they escaped froar trucks. After !bhe Italian armistice they" headed for the Allies' lines in Italy rather .than for neutral Switzerland. Ywg&slav Partisans who were armed to.the teeih helped them from village to village. It -was bitterly cold, and Gemnan patrols, always active, picked off" s(xme of i&e .escapees when they were crossing a risrer.. General Tito's provisional' Government one night entertained Major Baitentine, who was presented wife Tito's signed photograph. ■ , .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5
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