ESCAPE TO ALLIES
SOUTH AFRICAN GENERAL. TAKEN PRISONER AT TOBRUK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 5. Major-General H. P. Klopper, commander of South Africa’s Second Division, who was captured when Tobruk surrendered, has escaped from a prison camp at Sulmona, in Italy, and after a 150-mile trek has linked up with the Allied forces. Major-General Klopper escaped when the armistice was announced and spent nearly three weeks walking through the mountains to the Allied lines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 3
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80ESCAPE TO ALLIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 3
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