MASS PRISON ESCAPE
POLITICAL OFFENDERS SEARCH IN PYRENEES (10.30 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 26. Tnree thousand armed police and special security squads with Tommy guns are watching all the main roads lending to the Pyrenees foothills for ';i political prisoners who made a mass escape from Carrere Prison camp, near Agen. It is believed that .the men are attempting to enter Spain. They were serving sentences for collaboration with the Nazis. , The police rounded up 12 other escapees. . ..... The prisoners cut off the electricity and overpowered eight warders last night and escaped in cars, which apparently according to a well-laid plan had been left outside the camp after nightfall. . . Police reinforcements arrived in time to prevent the escape of a second group of about 300 prisoners.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 27 September 1947, Page 8
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