THREE-MONTHS’ TREK
FORMER PRISONERS REACH SYDNEY Recd. 6 p.m. London, Jan. 5. A party of three Allied officers and 60 men, including Britishers, New Zealanders, and South Africans, reached the Allied lines in Italy after trekking for thre months over the mountains of Yugoslavia, reports Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. A South African, Major Charles Ballentine, who was taken prisoner at Tobruk, said that he and others were being taken to Germanv when thev escaped from trucks. After the Italian armistice they headed for the Allies’ lines in Italy rather than for neutral Switzerland. Yugoslav Partisans who were armed to the teeth helped them from village to village. It was bitterly cold, and German patrols always active, picked off some of the escapees when they were crossing a river. General Tito's provisional Government one night entertained Major Ballentine, who was presented with Tito’s signed photograph.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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