ESCAPE FROM FORT.
. SYDNEY, June 24. A \ ictorian company quartermastersergeant is the hero of a dramatic escape- from the French, save tho Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent in Syria. Taken prisoner in the fighting round Merjlyun. lie turned up in our lines the following day. "I was hustled into Fort ~Chiam," he saul. '-When the magazine went up there was terrible confusion in the fort, and nobody had time to worrv about me.. Nearby there Is an old disused well. 1 hopped into it while the guards' backs were turned. Fortunately, it was not deep. It made an excellent hiding-place, and I remained there for eight, hours. '•When it got dark I crawled out. covered my uniform with a French greatcoat I found, and succeeded in creeping through the French line. There was only one nasty moment, when I was challenged by a sentrv.' I mumbled something wliich I hope sounded like French, then ran for my life. Why the sentrv did not fire I don't know, but he didn't, and I madeit "
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 8
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172ESCAPE FROM FORT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 8
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