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ft VOL. LXIII, NO. 290.Nab TwoNazi War■PrisonersWith five of the 12 German Mrisoners of war who tunnei-* * d out of the Camp Barkeley stockade Tuesday night re* captured, peace officers of this area late last night centered their search for the regaining seven between here and the Mexican border.After questioning the three prisoners of war captured at Ballinger Wednesday night Camp Barkeley ^ficials were convinced that all were trying to make the Mexican border.According to those recaptured, two of whom spoke fairly good English, the Germans hoped to get a boat from Mexico back to their♦/aterland.’* •ft ft ftiV. *tTwo of the'prisoners were recaptured near Winters early last night by Frank Johnson, whose horse shied away from strange objects in * barrow ditch along the road. #jhnson tok the two men into custody, both unarmed, and turned them over to Winters officers.They were Willi Lange and Max Madile. Captured at Ballinger early Thursday and returned to military control at Camp Barkeley were Otto Reichert, Bans Schmidt andJoachim Schwarzenholi. Twowho escaped at Ballinger were Herbert StankewiU and Josef verstegen.M Camp Barkeley officers learned from these three men that, they had been working on the tunnel through which they escaped for about three months. It was 60 feet long, started under a hutment within the Blockade and came out under a hut-Venfc west of the stockade.• • •vva:■Those Tecaplured at Ballinger were wearing uniforms of German soldiers, and those taken at Winters last.night’had on khaki clothes andakdil caps.; ' . ’ .i;According to the.three men cap-fcrisd at Ballinger, they and their two companions spent Tuesday-night and all of Wednesday in the woods near Tuscola and that night stole the automobile which they were driving when captured in Bal-T They were frank to admit lo 1 Camp Barkeley. officers that ’ they were heading, for Mexico. There they hoped to catch a boat and get back to Germany and once more 5oln the fight against the Allies.Col. Victor YT. B. Wales. Barkeley commander, Thursday ordered a thorough investigation of the Escape, and of how it was possible tor the 12 prisoners to tunnel out of the stockade in which they had»en held.• • •R\G«bejb:N3f*aihrKs;ftwHfrIirV1lt;oThe tunnel was about eight feet under the ground; and steps had been built from under a hutment in the stockade to the tunnel, which came out under another hutment fctside the prisoner of war stockade Electric light wires had been strung inside the tunnel, providing excellent working conditions' for the prisoners at night. Timbers had been used io make the tunnel safe.The seven prisoners still at large •te last night were: Heinz Brauer, Gerhard Lange. Horst Nicolai. Heinz Rehnen, Peter Ritters, Stankewitzand Verstegen.Camp Barkeley officials are coc-fident that all will be recaptured, |ven U the search has to continue *to Mexico.a0 e(JFaf11
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Sat, Apr 01, 1944
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