ACROSS THE RHINE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 6

ACROSS THE RHINE

'ANZAG'S' DARING ESCAPE. Two South Australians, J. W. Pitts and W. Choate, of tho 53rd Battalion, who recently daringly escaped from Germany have reached London (reports the Sydney "Sun's" London representative). They were captured in 1916. While working in a commando in Muenster they were imprisoned on the third floor of the barracks. . They broke the bars and barbed-wire protecting the windows, and descended 50ft.-by a steel rope, stolen from the railways u confederates singing to drown the noise.-. Three Tommies and L. H. Barry, of the First Australian Engineers followed. All those were recaptured, but the two successful ones took a train to DusseldorfF. Choate learned German to enable him to escape. They bought tickets, and entered a train. In their compartment two soldiers were sealed. They crossed the Rhine, and walked for three nights to the frontier, sustained by chocolate. Choate had been previously recaptured near the frontier, and a new route was chosen. The method of disguising their clothes was jngenious. It was Barry's second failure.