The Archive · 1939

Escape from Camp

Four German Prisoners — Climb Over Barbed Wire At Dead Of Night

London, Nov. 21.

Four German prisoners have escaped from the same internment camp in Scotland from which three others escaped on November 18. It is understood that they eluded the sentries between midnight and 3 am. this morning by climbing barbed wire entanglements.

The camp is situated in a district which provides wooded shelter for fugitives. It is in east Scotland.

"Three German prisoners who es-coped through the barbed wire fence round the camp on Saturday were recaptured by the police in the south of Scotland that same evening—Reuter. stop that pain

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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