GERMAN PRISONERS
MASS ESCAPE PLANNED WARNING GIVEN BY ANTI-NAZI LONDON, Mar. 18. Before the 70 Gerfnan -prisoners escaped from Bridgend war prisoners’ camp last Sunday a mass escape of 2300 Germans was planned, says the Sunday Express. All of the 70 escapees have now been recaptured. A warning of the mass escape was given in a note, apparently written by an anti-Nazi. The note was thrown through the barbed-wire fence surrounding the compound, and was picked up by a sentry. The guard was doubled and flares were placed around the camp. Sentries stood with their rifles at the ready. Although no signs of .movement could be seen, the 70 prisoners who escaped managed to crawl through a tunnel dug from inside a hut to a point outside the camp. The tunnel, which started below a cot in a hut, was so carefully camouflaged that routine weekly searches failed to reveal it. The horizontal portion of the tunnel was so large the men could walk along it without stooping.. The walls and roof were supported by props, which the prisoners made from pieces of timber.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 6
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