GERMAN PRISONER
ESCAPES FROM CAMP OUTSIDE HELP OBTAINED The young German officer who escaped from a Canadian internment camp and who was later re-captured, had outside assistance says the Christian Science Monitor. “Fifth columnists,” at least one of them a woman, were believed by Canadian authorities, to have aided in the escape. The prisoner, brought to Canada from England, crawled to freedom through a three-foot high tunnel built directly under one of the guard rooms and braced efficiently by timber which police said was stolen piece by piece from workmen building additions to the camp barracks. So carefully was the tunnel made that authorities believe a general escape may have been planned. Perhaps most amazing of all was the discovery of a radio transmitting set concealed in the ceiling of the barracks over his bed, over which the prisoner apparently planned his escape with outside help. The tunnel extended 50 yards from an ice house in which the prisoner worked.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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160GERMAN PRISONER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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