21 W 1967
Daily Mirror
HOW I WAL
By MIRROR REPORTERS
BRITISH police inspector Frank
Knight, kidnapped thirty-six days ago by a Chinese mob, staggered bare- foot back to Hong Kong yesterday after a fantastic twenty-five-mile flight to freedom through the rice fields.
A few hours after he had been found by a Gurkha border patrol, 38-year-old Knight, pale and with bloodshot eyes, coolly told reporters: "I thought I had been kept long enough."
I crossed rice
Then the ex-rugger player from Dagenham, Eessex. launched, in matter-of- fact voice, into the astonishing account of his twelve-hour dash from captivity, across two rivers, barbed wire barri- cades, and finally through a drain.
A mob of Chinese peasants dragged Inspec- tor Knight across the
Man Kam To bridge on ** October 16. Не was taken to a hostel at Shum Chun. five miles away.
Chance
Knight said that his chance to escape came at about 8 p.m. on Sun- day. One of his two guards was taking a shower-the other went to answer the telephone.
He said: "I slipped the bolts of the window in my ground floor room, hopped out into the gar- den, and set off for the border.
"As the crow flies, it was about five miles. I went about twenty-five." The Inspector went on: "I made my way across
fields, ditches, two rivers, and
then managed to crawl through a drain to Hong Kong
some paddy fields to a hilltop. Then I went down through quite a big village, through quite a lot of rice, along a num- ber of ditches, through sugar cane and towards the border at Nga Yiu.
"I arrived not far from British territory, and I saw a sentry in front of
me.
"I lay in the ditch for about forty-five minutes.
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