SUSPENDED FROM DUTY
! 1 CAMP COMMANDANT ' t t a GERMANS’ BRIEF ESCAPE IN AUSTRALIA I Canberra, May 19. J 1 The Army Minister, Mr. F. M. - Forde, announced in the House of ’ r Representatives to-day that the Gov-' ; ernment had suspended from duty the! , camp commandant at an internment! j 5 camp from which six German prisoners had escaped last week. All the escapees, he added, had now been recantured. Mr, Forde explained that the Germans had been engaged in woodcutting in the Goulburn Valley, in Victoria. He emphasised the difficulty g of guarding prisoners of war when fl employed outside their camps. The Army opposed employment out- < p side camps, and this case was likely s lead to a revision of that policy. 0
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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