THE GERMAN ESCAPEES.
SOME INTERESTING' REVELATIONS LIKBLY: (From Our Own Correspondent), Wellington, July 31. The attempted escape of four Germans from Somes Island will be the subject of a military inquiry and if the proceedings are public there may be some interesting revelations. The attempt ended disastrously from the point of view of the four prisoners; but it might easily have ended otherwise. The men were quite capable of navigating a small craft if they had got possession of it. It appears that they managed to leave the island without being missed, and that in the ordinary course of events tbey would not have been missed until the roll call in the morning. In the meantime, if their raft had floated, they would have had eight or ten hours to find a boat or escape into the bush. The men have indicated that their idea was to get possession of a boat in which they could attempt the crossing of tiie Pacific. This would have been a bold effort with apparently small chance of success, but the Defence authorities ought to know by this time that the interned Germans are capable of bold efforts,
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 2
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194THE GERMAN ESCAPEES. Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 2
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