TERRIBLE JOURNEY.
ACROSS THE PYRENEES. FORMER PRESIDENT’S ESCAPE. FIRED AT BY GUARDS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 27, 11.10 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 26. After a terrible journey across the Pyrenees by foot Senor Juan Casanovas, former President of the Catalan Parliament, has arrived here. He eluded guards posted at his home in Barcelona, where he had been confined awaiting a court-martial •since the October revolution. He motored to this mountains, and began an 18 hours’ climb in snow and darkness. lie told an interviewer: “Do nol ask me how I escaped. You do not suppose It was easy. Do not ask where I crossed the Pyrenees. I expected to be stopped at any moment by customs officers. 1 heard a shot, followed by a voice saying: ‘ Be careful; these animals are dangerous when wounded.’ Two marksmen had mistaken me for a bear.” Senor Casanova injured his knee in a fall six hours before reaching Foix, ilie first town in France.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19665, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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