GERMAN PRISONERS
ESCAPE IN CANADA BLOODHOUNDS IN PURSUIT (Received August 29, 5.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, August '2B The Canadian Minister of Defence, Mr. J. L. Ralston, indicated that a reorganisation of Canada's prison camps would probably be made, following news of the escape of two German prisoners from an Ontario camp last night. The prisoners hid in drainage trenches, where friends covered them lightly with 1 earth, enabling them to escape in the darkness. Bloodhounds were taken by aeroplane to the camp, and are now on the trail of the escaped prisoners
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 10
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