AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
ESCAPE OF INTERNED GERMANS. Received Jan. 2, 10.55 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 2. Another prison sensation is reported. During the night four German internees, named Siemen, Carre, .Shallock, and Reiser, escaped from the detention barracks at the old Darlinghurst Gaol. They improvised a rope with blankets and scaled the high walls and got clear away. The mysterious part of the affair is that the doors of their separate, empty cells were found securely looked and barred, also another door through which they had made their exit. Three of the escapees were prominent athletes. Carre had made previous escapes from deteation camps.
It ia-reported that Reiser was captured in the city during the afternoiw.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. . \. ..
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 5
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