ESCAPE TO FRANCE
EX-PRESIDENT OF CATALONIA.
JOURNEY ACROSS PYRENEES. COURT-MARTIAL AVOIDED. t United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 27, 9.50 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 26. After a terrible journey across the Pyrenees by foot, Senor Juan Casanovas, the former President of the Catalan Parliament, has arrived here. He eluded the guards posted at his homo in Barcelona, where he had been confined awaiting a court-martial since the October revolution. He motored to the mountains and began an eighteen hours’ climb in the snow and darkness. Senor Casanovas told an interviewer: “Do not ask me how I escaped. You do not suppose it was easy. Do not ask where 1 crossed the Pyrenees. 1 expected to be stopped at any moment by Customs officers. I heard a shot, followed by a voice saying, ‘Be careful.’ Theso animals are dangerous when wounded.’ Two marksmen had mistaken mo for a bear.”
Senor Casanovas injured his knee in a fall six hours before reaching Foix, the first town in France.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 230, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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