GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 June 1918, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

BULGARIA’S POLITICAL CONDITION. CAUSING GERMANY UNEASINESS Received 9.10 a.m. " ,-: AMSTERDAM, June 24. The German press is uneasy over the political situation in Bulgaria, and deplore thd (inclusion of democratic and radical elements in the Cabinet. It Malitoff will declare that Bulgaria’s foreign policy is unchanged. The Bulgarian newspapers emphasise the difficulties the new Government will experience in (solving foreign and internal problems.*?- '

OARING ESCAPE FROM GERMAN CAMP. BY TWO BRITISH PRISONERS. Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON, June 24. Lieut. Badcock, who was cabled on the 6th inst., as having escaped from a German prison camp, had Gill, a Seaforth Highlander, as a comrade in the escapade.

Badcock was wounded at Pozieres in 1916, and had been working ;jjtuice then at Cassel. He and Gill belonged to a party of eight prisoners working to gether, Private Gradner, the sentry, being an old civilian gardener. Badcock and Gill purloined a map of Westphalia, bought a compass and se. cured a supply of civilian clothes. When the sentry was at lunch on May seventh, Badcock picked up a spade, and, with Gill, shouldered a sack of provisions and walked off. They traversed Cassel from south to north, passing unchallenged. They hid in a neighbouring road at nightfall, and thereafter travelled fifteen nights', hiding in the daytime. Once they lost their way through the misleading compass, and had anxious moments, but did not experience anything sensational. Once they were observed by a sentry, but eluded him. They traversed several substantial towns and many villages, rationing themselves on seven biscuits daily, which lasted until the frontier was reached. Although the distance to the frontier Is 140 miles, the escapees covered 220, owing to the circuitous route. Badcock, with English and Canadian companions, tried to escape in 19l3j|:but were recaptured aftef covering: 180 kilometres, and were sentenced to nineteen days solitary confinement during which, thy were severely clubbed by the guards. ,