ESCAPED FROM ARABS
KIDNAPPED SOLDIER MARKS OF SAVAGE BEATINGS (Independent Cable Service) DAMASCUS, June 7. Almost starving and bearing marks of savage beatings, Private Boylan, an Irish soldier of the Worcestershire Regiment, was brought in to Damascus after escaping from Arabs, who kidnapped him at Nablus on May 25 and took him across the Syrian frontier. The Arabs tortured and beat Boylan to make him disclose military information. He obdurately refused «md ultimately escaped.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 9
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