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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3189, 13 September 1917, Page 5

An extraordinary exploit, on tho part of certain Germans interned at Lourenco Jlarques was rocently reported. As the outcome of a conspiracy hatched among these interned men, a party ot 4U | prisoners obtained revolvers through some mysterious channel, overpowered and gagged their guard, and escaped. Half the party immediately plunged into the low veldt wilderness surrounding tho town, while the others boldly proceeded to tho harbour, where they found a brig and boarded her, the , captain being forced bv their threats to make sail. At this juncture a shore battery observed something of what was going on and prevented the vessel sailing. Inns foiled the Germans on the brig returned to the shore and plunged into the busli, where they rejoined their comrades. Ino Portuguese authorities promptly sent a party of cavalry in pursuit of the fugitives, and an encounter took place, with the result that after two Germans had been killed and eight wounded;tho rest of tho fugitives surrendered. At a farmers' Red Cross salo at Uckficld, three hen's eggs laid on tho scalo fetched 535. \. menu card on which Captain Evans, of' H M.S. firoko, drew a few penguins has been sold for J2IOOO, which is to bo given to tho Bed Cross Society.