ESCAPE FROM SINGAPORE
GENERAL BENNETT REACHES JAVA
(Rec. 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 26. It is announced that Major-General Gordon Bennett, commander of the Australian forces in Malay and Singapore, has escaped from Changi fortress, Singapore, where he had been interned by the Japanese along with LieutenantGeneral Percival, the British Com-mander-in-Chief. Major-General Bennett, with others, arrived in Java after an adventurous voyage from Singapore. His companions were seven members of British regiments and eight members of the Singapore Volunteer Defence Corps. The Delhi radio confirmed MajorGeneral Bennett’s arrival in Batavia. Ilie party escaped from Singapore island in a boat and then boarded a junk. Their only aid to navigation through a sea studded with islands was a map from an atlas. They had little food and water was rationed. After four days they reached Sumatra, where they met a Royal Air Force patrol boat. Two and a-half days later the party reached Batavia.
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Southland Times, Issue 24680, 27 February 1942, Page 5
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