CZECH OFFICER FLEES FROM TERROR REGIME
(Rec. 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct; 10. After making a break for freedom across the Czechoslovakian border into Austria with five companions, a high-ranking Czech General Staff officer stepped from a plane at Northolt last night on his way to reunion with his English wife. The officer, whose identity is being kept secret, said that for two days and nights he and five friends hid in the woods on the eastern side of the frontier without food or water while armed Communist patrols searched for them. 1 ’ ■ “Then early one morning we all made a dash for it,” he said. “Of the six, only three got through. One was shot dead, another died later from wourfds and a third was captured. We went through great dangers and hardships, but anything is better than living under the Russians.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 5
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