ESCAPE OF DE VALERA
HOW IT WAS EFFECTED. (Rec. February 2, 5.5 p.m.) 1 Paris, March 1. An American interviewer has discovered that De Valera escaped from Lincoln Prison through the agency of a committee of friends. The committee first planned to rush (ha arnwd guards outside the barbed wire surrounding the exercise yard, but abandoned the plan lest De Valera should be shot. An Irishman sang Gaelic songs outside the prison tell big De Valera the method of escape. De Valera secured the key of the main gate and threw an impression of it made in "bread outside the prison. The committee made a duplicate key and secured the services of a number of Irish girls to flirt with the sentries. De Valera fixed the date, and the girls enticed the sentries away from the gate. The friends outside opened the gate with the false key, cut the barbed wire, and De Valera escaped to London, while the police were chasing the decoy motor-car. —Ans,-N.Z.' Cable Assn. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 5
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168ESCAPE OF DE VALERA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 5
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