BID FOR LIBERTY
PRISONERS OF WAR Perth, May 31. Tunnelling 140 feet, 16 Australian and three New Zealand prisoners of war in an Italian camp broke out in a desperate but unavailing attempt to reach the Swiss border. After being free for five days, the fugitives were recaptured. Their long-planned getaway was based on a famous escape by British prisoners in Germany during the last war. The story of the escape is told in. a letter home by a West Australian participant who served a 30-day cell sentence for his part in the venture. A curious aspect is that the writer in an earlier letter to his brother advised him to read Chapter 13 of a book “by a bloke named Evans.” This book, “The Escaping Club,” told how British prisoners in the last war tunnelled out of their camp with table knives and forks. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 June 1943, Page 5
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