ESCAPE FROM TURKS.
BRITISH PRISONER'S EXPLOITS
LONDON, November 3. It has been related to the Pit 7,o Court that eight, British officers who were prisoners in Yozgad. Turkey, iu 1918, escaped and reached tho coast in an emaciated condition. They suffered untold privations and had many hairbreadth escapes and encounter?, with brigands. They swam to the Turkish tug FTertha. which was lying in harbour, noiselessly raised the anchor, rowed off under tho nose of a sentry, started tho engines and made for Cyprus, their compass being the sun Tho Court congratulated the officers, and decreed that tho Hertha wbb «, prize-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19800, 18 November 1919, Page 2
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