AUSTRALIANS' ESCAPE.
PERILS OF THE FRONTIER. London, Nov. 15. Three Australians have arrived in London within a month 'of having been captured by the Germans. They escaped from Termonde, east of Ghent, when their captors were taking them to Germany. They encountered bitterly cold weather. They travelled at night time amidst a maze of canals and ditches, frequently wading waist-deep in water. They reached the frontier in three days. The leader was almost electrocuted by a wire fence. They hid in a barn for seven days, eating turnips, and watching the habits of the frontier guards, who were stationed at 100 yds intervals. On the seventh night they passed the guards and carried out a daring plan to surmount the fence in the moonlight, lying flat as the sentries passed within 10yds of tfliem. The guards' password ',vas "Australia," and this suggested that they had been' warned. While at Termonde a bogus Xew Zealand officer attempted to fraternise with (hem, and question them regarding the route pf transports. They did not respond. A bogus, Tommv had induced t.hcm to reveal an earlier plan of escape. He spoke perfect English.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1917, Page 2
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189AUSTRALIANS' ESCAPE. Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1917, Page 2
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