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ANZAC PRISONERS OF WAR / : . , RECAPTURED AFTER FIVE DAYS ’(Rec. 0.15 a.m.) 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' tc \ reach the Swiss border. After being free for five days, the fugitives were recaptured/ Their long-planned getaway was based upon 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 partidpantr. 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.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25240, 1 June 1943, Page 3
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