VON SANDERS'S NARROW ESCAPE.
THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN. (SI CABLI-PatSS tSSOCUTIOK-COPiaWHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND If.Z. AND BUN . CABLt.) LONDON, November 2. The one man who was mainly responsible for the escape of General von Sanders from tho'clutches of the Australian Light Horse after the rout of the Turkish Army in Palestine was his chauffeur,, named Tiecke. This fact was disclosed in a chance conversation at the motor-cycle show between the manager of an English firm, Mr C Wilson, and a German agent. Mr Wilson remarked: "I was witb the Air Force in Palestine during the war, and once chased Von Sanders's Mr Tiecke laughed. "Yes," he said, "we had to move fast. I was driving and kept to the narrow lanes. The Australians missed us by the merest fraction." ,
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 11
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127VON SANDERS'S NARROW ESCAPE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 11
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