HOMEWARD JOURNEY
TAKES YEAR INSTEAD OF TWO DAYS. ADVENTURES OF REFUGEES FROM ROME. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. Two members of the staff of the British Institute in Rome have arrived in Lisbon a year after leaving Italy on what they expected to be a homeward journey of two days. When they originally reached Paris, they were swept back by the German advance and forced to tramp half across France. One possesed a rug and umbrella and the other an overcoat and a British civilian gas mask, which repeatedly caused the French to arrest him. as the mask suspiciously resembled a miniature radio. Eventually the mask was discarded. For four weeks the two nightly made a wigwam with the rug, umbrella and overcoat. They once narrowly escaped capture by the Germans by hiding in a haystack. They finally reached Marseilles, where they waited for ten months before they were allowed to go to Portugal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 6
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