IN BARONIAL CASTLE
N.Z. SOLDIER'S EXPLOIT IN AUSTRIA
LONDON, May 24
A New Zealand soldier, Belville Fountain, of Otago, who was captured in Greece and escaped four times from prison camps, became lord of a castle in Russian-occupied Austria. With five other soldiers he made his fourth escape from a German prison camp as the Russians were advancing through Austria. The soldiers found a feudal castle in Carinthia and took it over. They retained the stafT and lived in baronial splendour for a week.
Fountain organised an Allied information bureau for scores of escaped Allied prisoners hiding in, the neighbourhood. Finally, Fountain and his comrades made their way to Klagenfurt (capital of Carinthia). from which 'they were repatriated to Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 6
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120IN BARONIAL CASTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 6
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