BRITISH PRISONERS AT PRETORIA.
TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS. STATEMENTS BY ESCAPEES. (Received 10,1.10 a.m.) London, May 9. Whitticgtcn jind Ford, two Australian prisoners who escaped from Protons, declare that the British prisoners at Yv'atwval stifier frosvi in Sufficient f-.nidation and lack of ratidicn •ttsatiOßr #C«I I ,U WWty
ffce'.tor is inadequate. Half of t!;o prisoners are suOering from low favor. Whittington aiid Fold possesssd a map of the country and a small compass. They narrowly escaped falling into the hands of patrol parties. They travelled at night, unless thick bush afforded cover by day-time. They waded many swamps and rivers, and suffered severely through wet clothes and the intensely cold nights. Eventually they boarded, at night, a goods train for Delagoa Bay at the Water-
walonder Sid'ng, amongst bales of wool, covered by a tarpaulin. Kaffirs and the railway officials searched the trucks at Komati Poort, but the stowaways were not discovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 10 May 1900, Page 3
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150BRITISH PRISONERS AT PRETORIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 96, 10 May 1900, Page 3
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