TREK ACROSS JUGOSLAVIA
ALLIED PRISONERS ESCAPE LONDON, Jan. 5. A party of three Allied officers and 60 men, including Britons, New Zealanders, and South Africans, have reached the Allied lines m Italy after trekking for three months over the mountains of Jugoslavia, reports Reuter’s Cairo correspondent Major Charles Ballentme, a South African, who was taken prisoner at Tobruk, said he and others who were being taken to Germany escaped from trucks after the Italian armistice. They headed for the Allied lines in Italy rather than for neutral Switzerland. Jugoslav partisans, armed to the teeth, helped them from village to village. It was bitterly cold, and German patrols, always active, picked off some of the men when crossing a river. Marshal Tito’s Provisional Government one night entertained Major Ballentine, who was presented with the marshal’s signed photograph.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 2
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