TRAINED TO ESCAPE
GERMAN PRISONERS
CANADA'S DISCOVERY
Investigation of 'German war prisoners in Canada has shown that i\ German 'School organised for tli'e specific purpose of teaching prisoners how to escape, Canadian internment.. headquarters stated recently. Preparing in advance for their soldiers being captured, the Germans held, classes in lock picking, tunnelling and other ways of breaking out. In one Canadian camp there arc at least 20 men who have learned scientific ways of openiny locks without keys. Two of them are members of the German Gestapo. Authorities are now able to explain how a tunnel was completed for Laurenz Gunther's escape from a Muskoka camp. Other prisoners carried earth out in their pockets and scattered it wherever they got a chance iar awaj 7 from the scene of tunnelling. When all was ready Gunthcr, who speaks > English fluently, escaped.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 237, 13 November 1940, Page 7
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140TRAINED TO ESCAPE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 237, 13 November 1940, Page 7
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