ESCAPE FROM GERMANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4905, 26 June 1918, Page 5

ESCAPE FROM GERMANY.

TASMANIAN’S SENSATIONAL EXPLOIT. A DARINgTaDVENTURE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, June 24. . Private Badcock, a Tasmanian who has escaped from Germany, had Gill, a Seaforth Highlander, as a comrade in his escape. Badcock was wounded at Pozieres in 1916. He had been working since then at Cassel. _He and Gill belonged to a party of eight prisoners working m a private garden the sentry being an old civilian gardener Badcocl and Gill purloined, money, bought a compass and secur-, e/I a supply of civilian clothes. When their sentry was at lunch on May , Badcock picked up a spade. Gill hag of provisions, and through misreading the compass an^ Raj anxious moments, hut did not experience anything sensational. G y V/f j° n R?m° bS They traversed'several substantial towns and the frontier ier was 14AJ mnes, ■ rlr-fmit-ered 200 miles, owing to the c ous route. t. nTU i Canadian Badcock, in 1916, 11° dw°” solitary corfinment, a dnr,n| which he was severely cluDDeg uy guard. i r