INTERNED GERMANS ESCAPE.
OXSTDIES FROM EXHAUSffcON
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, July 31. Some time during tho night four interned Germans escaped from Somes Island on a rudely "constructed raft with the evident intention of going to .the city side of the harbor, but the raft drifted ashore towards Petone and wa,s swamped. One of the men .died from exposure. Thg others landed and were arrested by the civil police. They are now in week condition. Later a rji.de-ly-fa_hi_3_ed sextant was found floating in the -vicinity of the landing.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 7
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89INTERNED GERMANS ESCAPE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 7
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