GERMANS' ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3004, 15 February 1917, Page 5

GERMANS' ESCAPE

OFFICERS WHEELED TO STORE SHED AS WASTE-PAPER. Two . German officers, Lieutenant [Anton Cmentek and Lieafenaut Otto llhelan, who escaped from the Holyport Detention Camp recently, certainly displayed great forethought and ingenuity. It appears that the camp waste-paper is collected at intervals and wheeled in barrows to a store shed outsido the grounds, this work being performed by .German orderlies. The. officers conceived the idea , of being taken to the Ishcd as waste-paper, and consequently lhid themselves underneath it. By using a twig of elderwood from which, the pith had been abstracted, they managed to get sufficient air in their' hiding-place. Tho roll-call was answered by some of their comrades, so that the men were not missed. When tho orderlies came to wheel out tho waste paper, so natural did the bundles look that tho suspicions of the armed guard in charge were not aroused. After tliey had been tumbled into the store shed tho door was locked by ■ the guard, aud tho orderlies returned to the camp with the guard. As soon as all was quiet again, the officers managed to freo themselves from their respective bundles, forced the lock of the door, and thus secured their freedom. How they obtained tho civilian clothes which they were wearing when arrested by Police-Constable Crook at Old Windsor shortly after midnight is. a inysItory.