CAMP TUNNELS
DUG BY WAR PRISONERS IN VICTORIA FURTHER DISCOVERIES. WIRE BARRIERS NOWHERE PASSED. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) (Special P.A. Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Military guards have discovered two more tunnels partly completed at a war prisoners’ camp in Victoria, mentioned in a recent cablegram. Altogether nine tunnels, up to 240 feet in length have been found. All the tunnels were discovered before they had penetrated under the wire barricades surrounding the camp. No prisoners have escaped through the tunnels. A total of 32 war prisoners have escaped or attempted to escape from camps in Victoria, but 28 have been recaptured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 4
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102CAMP TUNNELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 4
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