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In his
On the 19th November Knight decided that that night if the opportunity presented itself he would endeavour to get back to B.T. favour was the fact that the "clack" pair of guards yould be on duty that night. During the day, in order to prepare for a hasty departure which he reckoned must coincide with tho singio guard being away at the telephonu, should it ring, Knight loosened,, as whon seemed opportune, the bolts securing a metal mosquito type screen and the window at the back of the room, in order that the screen and the window could be opened quietly and
casily.
24. At about 19.45 hours one of the guards wont as expected for his bath. Knight then went into his bathroom and put on his clothes. He then made up hia bod, using two blankets and a pillow to make it appear as if he was asleep, lowered the mosquito net and propped a picture of MAO by the bedside table light. He considered that this picture might distract the guards from looking too closely at the bed. Shortly after Knight had made those pre- parations, the telephone rang and he heard the guard leaving to take the call. Moying quickly into the main room he opened the metal grillo and the window, and climbed through and dropped to the paddy field. He then closed tho grillo and the window from the outside.
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Under cover of darkness Knight quickly but furtively made his way across paddy fields in an easterly direction and somo distance later climbed
Disconcertingly he established a hill in order to reconnoitre the area.
He therefore descended and
the presence of an army camp near the summit. continued in a north easterly direction, moving into and through the outskirts of a large village, which Le now believes to be Wong Pui Ling. By mogne of orawling .through ditches and keeping to paddy and fields of sugar cane he eventually arrived at a point from which he could see a light, which he correctly believed to be the Nga Yiu Police Post in British Territory. Moving in the general direction of this light he moved nearer to the Shum Chun river estimating that down was about to rise and that therefore he had
Up to this point he had found the been on the move for about 10 hours.
district to be deserted and as far as he knows he had not been spotted by
All was silent and there was nothing to suggest any any guards or patrols. hue and cry.
He assumed therefore that he had not been missed, thus far. When he thought he had hearly reached the river he wuddenly discovered the presence of a sentry's back, about 20 feet away, barring his progress. Knight froze in his tracks finding it difficult to believe that he had not been heard. When howover, the sentry remained muto, possibly dosing on his
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