SAFETY REACHED
British Prisoners
RUGBY. Jan. 5.
A party of three Allied officers and 60 men, including Britons, New Zealanders, and South Africans, have reached the Allied lines in Italy after trekking for three months over the mountains of Yugoslavia, reports Reuter’s correspondent in Cairo. A South African, Major Charles Ballentine, who was taken prisoner at Tobruk, said that he and others who were being taken to Germany escaped from railway trucks after the Italian armistice. They headed for the Allied lines in Italy rather than neutral Switzerland. Yugoslav partisans armed to the teeth, helped them from village io village. It was bitterly cold, and German patrols, who were always active, picked off some of the escapees when they were crossing a river. Marshal Ere/-Tito’s provisional Government one night entertained Major Ballentine, to whom it presented" a signed photograph of Marshal BrogTito.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22784, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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142SAFETY REACHED Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22784, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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