Evening Standard
CAPTURED INSPECTOR SWIMS TO FREEDOM
HONGKONG, Monday.-A British police inspector dodged armed Chinese guards, swam two rivers and waded through ditches and miles of ricefields to escape from China early today. He had been held captive for 36 days.
"I waited till one guard was having his bath and the other was on the tele- phone, and then climbed through a back window of the room," said Senior Inspector Frank G. Knight, of Grove Gardens, Dagen- ham, Essex.
"The border was only five miles away as the crow flies. but the way I went it was more like 25 miles," he told a Press conference.
Inspector Knight, 37-year-old bachelor was dragged across the border road bridge at Man Kam To by mainland Chinese workers on October 14 after an argument between the workers and the Hongkong authorities over a barbed-wire border fence.
He escaped from a Chinese Army hostel near Shum Chun
At Dagenham, Mr. Knight's family waited anxiously today His for more news of him. brother. Mounted Police stable Ronald Knight. was in touch with the Foreign Office.
At peace
Con-
Inspector Knight said the only person he had spoken to in captivity was a man calling him- self the représentative of the peasants."
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He was told to be at peace
INSPECTOR KNIGHT
and that he would eventually be released. There was no attempt to indoctrinate him,
"I was well treated during my time there. Mostly I had pork, vegetable and rice to eat, a little fruit, sometimes a bottle of beer and sometimes a glass of port wine," Inspector Knight said.
"I lost probably 15 to 20 pounds in weight, but that was nothing to do with the way I was treated . . . I needed to lose weight."
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