GERMANS ESCAPE
FROM SOMES ISLAND. ' (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, Marcli 24. Two young Germans, Edwin Bailee anfl Paul Woolf, who were interned at Somes Island, escaped this morning by swimming over 1% miles to Petone, where they surrendered to the police. They stated that the object of the escape was to draw attention to the treatment of the Germans on the island. They had been employed at road work, which they declared was fit for convicts, and not for prisoners of war. They appeared little the worse for their swim, though <a bleak southerly wind was blowing. One of the men lost his bundle of clothes, which he had strapped to his back, and used some of his companion’s clothes on landing.
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Southland Times, Issue 17469, 25 March 1915, Page 5
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123GERMANS ESCAPE Southland Times, Issue 17469, 25 March 1915, Page 5
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