GERMAN PRISONERS
150 ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
By Tekffraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, May 20.
The military authorities discovered a tunnel fifty yards long leading from one of the barracks in the Holdsworthy Concentration Camp, under the outer fence." The discovery prevented thw escape of 150 Germans booked to sail by the AVillochra. The first batch of deported Germans has arrived by the Willochra from New Zealand. After the vessel has completed her term of quarantine she will take, a further contingent from Australia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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81GERMAN PRISONERS New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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