DARING ESCAPE
PALESTINE GAOL SCOTTISH SERGEANT PLEDGE TO HELP ARABS (11 a.m.) CAIRO, April 23. After escaping 24 days ago from Acre prison, Palestine, Henry Martin Dickson, a 23-year-old Scot and a former British sergeant, reached Cairo. Dickson was - sentenced in February to five years’ imprisonment for attempting to induce British soldiers to sell arms to the Arabs. Dickson said he had escaped in company with three Palestine policemen and a German who were also serving sentences. They broke the locks on three steel doors, crawled through the barbed wire and then swung from a tree on to the top from a 20ft. spiked wall.
Arabs later took them by car to Damascus, whence they were flown to Cairo. Dickson said he would return to Palestine to help the Arabs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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