POLITICAL EXILES
ESCAPEES PICKED UP,
(United Press Association-—x»y Electric Telegraph ---Copyright.)
BATAVIA, Feb, 19.
‘.Among the jiino Portuguese exiles who escaped from imprisonment at Dilly, ,as cabled yeßterday, there •were an ex-<Colonial Minister of Portugal, a military captain, a lieutenant, and police commissioner a nephew of the present President of the Portuguese Republic, an aviator, a journalist and a 'navy captain. All were picked up at midnight drif•jng in a lifeboat in mid-sea. An Australian schooner, the Jewasunye, rescued them. The exiles said that they had been rowing for hours to get outside the Portuguese territorial waters. They were handed over to a Dutch steamer, die Van Ricbeeek, the captain if which asked them to return to their prison territory in Timor at Dilly, but they refused, and asked for the protection of the Dutch flag, upon which the Dutch captain took them to the Sunday Isles. Upon their arrival at Koepang, the authorities examined their identifioa- . ion papers, -which were found to be correct. The Van Riebeeck i s expected at Java on February 25th.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1932, Page 5
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