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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938.

1,500 Men Escape From Franco Latest Arrivals at Whiteaways

Stay-In Miners

Sing Hymns

WHILE WOMEN WAIT IN RAIN

Along the deserted galleries of Wyndham Colliery, Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, 1,000 ft. below. the surface, the sound of Welsh hymns echo eerily.

Ninety black-faced

miners,

who had begun a protest "stay- in" strike 12 hours before, are "wasting" time. Mouth organs form their orchestra.

Those

They all in little groups. not singing play draughts with small pleces of black and white stones in ite uncertain light of a miner's torch which throws odd shadows into dark corners.

When the singing stops they break up into new groups for a spelling

bee. Still others play cards.

In the centre are three big baskets containing sandwiches sent down by mothers and wives at the pit-head,

And late that night they were still Dis- saying they would not come up.

pite the fact that the executive council of the South Wales Miners' Federn- ton asked them to

BLUNT REFUSAL

When their agent went down he received a blunt refusal.

Two men did yo up. But they engineers. The others kept

were below.

All yesterday anxious fathers,

brothers mathers,

and

sisters crowded at the plt entrance. They walled in vain in the soaking rain.

The dispute arose over the alleged non-payment of the minimum wage to 10 colliers working in the new Coronation scam of No. 1 pit, where a new price shift was accepted und agree some weeks ago.

"We have not investigated The miners' claims yet," said Mr. David "When the Richards, the mannger men return to the surface we ran discuss the matter.

"I have allowed food to be sent down, and am hopeful of a selle. ment at the Cardiff meeting.

"If the men are not ordered to the surface by the union, then um afraid they will just have to say down until they get tired of it."

"HAVING A GOOD TIME" Harry Jones, one of the colilers who returned home after presenting himself for the day shift, declared that the men would stay in the mine until they got their money,

"We sent down three baskets of

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|GIRL'S 'NO'

TO BLOOD

TEST

A girl refused in Windsor police court to submit to a blood test, which had been requested by a guardman summoned in respect of her child.

The girl, Miss Phyllis Mary Shepherd, of East Crescent, Windsor, accused Sidney George Hewins, of the 2nd Coldstream Guards.

Miss Shepherd said that not only did she refuse to submit to the test, but she would not allow her baby to undergo one either.

Hewins was the father of her child and she produced a letter in which, she said, he promised to marry het.

Hewins said thut if a test were made and he was proved to be the father. he would Shepherd.

marry

Miss

Two Soldiers Battle Through Hell

T

to Tell the First Full Dramatic Story

"Sunday Chronicle" Special Correspondent

HENDAYE, JUNE 15.

(WO MEN, STARVING, EXHAUSTED, THEIR CLOTHES IN RAGS, THEIR FEET BLEEDING THROUGH TORN SHOES, STAGGERED ACROSS THE FRONTIER FROM SPAIN TO TELL OF THE MOST AMAZING ESCAPE STORY OF THE SPANISH WAR.

These two men have reached safety ... 1,500 of their col- leagues, prisoners of Franco, who fought their way out of a fortross prison more than ten days ago, are still lost and wandering in the harsh mountain country south of the French frontier.

Miserable After Divorce,

They

Scattered parties of prisoners, the starving remainder of the 1,500, are hiddon in those mountains,

For more than ten days they have been marching,

Married Again sneaking along the rocky roads by night, hiding in caves

Liverpool.

Divorced two years ago, Sergt. Richard Hughes, of the King's Liver- pool Regiment, and his former wife, Mrs. Neta Hughes, were remarried at the Crosby, West Lanes, Register Omec.

ccro-

Mrs. Hughes sald after the mony: "I am sure we are now going to be very happy together.

"Since the divorce proceedings were brought in 1936, my husband and I have been very miserable. We found when the decree was made absolute that we were still in love with each other, and that our eight-year-old daughter was c

everything in the world to both of us."

The couple were first married In 1928, and five years later ivent India with the husband's regiment. After 18 months India, Mrs. flughes and her baby daughter returned to England. and when her husband came back in 1936 divorce proceedings were started.

Mrs. Hughes said: "Our first mir age followed a lightning courtship, for we were married only six weeks after miceting.

"It has taken a long time to sort things out, but when Dick came back from India in Jamary of this year we decided to bury the past and start all over again.

"1 am very thrilled, and I felt more at the ceremony than I was nervous when we were first married,"

Wallo their eight-year-old daughter was cutting the

wed- Hughes cake, Mr. ding

said: "When I opened my letters this morning these was a copy of my decree absolute sent by my soli- cilors, so I am in the novel pa- sition of receiving on the same day a copy of my decree absolute and my marriage lines each nam- ing the same party to both con- tracts.

"Actually we find we have always been in love with each other.

and woods through the day."

Since the night of May 20, when 1,500 burst their way out of Fort San Critobal during a local revolt in Pamplona against General Franco nothing had been heard of their fate until the two weary men got across the frontier at St. Jean-Pied-de-Port and collapsed at the foot of the French gendarmes.

Now the story of the missing prisoners is told. Chased by Phantom Troops

an Odyssey of lost

It is an epic of courage and despair men in a lost country, fighting against hunger, thirst, the heat of the day, the bitter frosts of the night, the implacable mountains, and pursued all the time by phantom troops..

They marched by night, hid by day. Sometimes they ven- tured out to beg or steal food. Then a stray shot from a sentry, a sudden encounter with troops would send them scurry- ing to cover again.

The lost prisoners have endured suffering and hardships worse even than that of the lost battalion which was cut off in the Pyrences.

They escaped in prison clothes. They had no rations, no weapons. Many of them were sick and half-starved before they broke out from the fortress.

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Hundreds of them will never be seen again alive.

To-day the two men who did escape were brought here to Hendaye. They are Jose Marinero Sanz, a 22-year-old farm worker, of Salamanca, and Valentinto Lorenzo Bajo, 38-year-old labourer.

It was Sanz who told me the dramatic story of the escape.

Uproar Outside Prison

"We were put back in our cells for the night at the Fort San Critobal on May 20,” he began.

"Suddenly, in the middle of the night, shots rang out, Outside there was uproar. Inside, the corridors echoed with crashes. Cell doors were being flung open.

"A few seconds later my own door was smashed open and swung wide. There was a wild rush of men down the corridor. I joined them.

"The courtyard was a milling mass of struggling prisoners. From outside came rifle and machine-gun fire.

"Suddenly we rushed the gates, smashed them down as if they had been paper, and swept out in a body.

and beef sandwiches this morn-

"I shall finish with the regiment in e sald, "They sent back a

about twelve months' time, and then massage to say they were having u curt good time. They have got a

I hope to get 11 job with a dance board as well as cards,"

He was ordered to pay 10s. a week band in London. In future my wife There was still a group at the pit- until the child was 16.

and 1, if we have misunderstandings, hund late at night.

nt them When Hewins asked if he could will talk things over quietly because were women, drenched by the un-appeal, he was told to consult his we have both regretted the separation on into the hills. By dawn we had broken up into groups.

commanding officer.

censing ruin

Most

hoping.

See

and found that we were fociish.

"We headed for the North like a herd of cattle, and pushed

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"There were 150 of us to- gether that first morning. And we spent the day in hiding,

"That night we split up again into smaller groups.. Bajo and I were with 13 others. We marched for three nights, hid- ing most of the daytime.

"By then most of us were in despair. Our bellies were em- pty. We had lost hope. We did not know where we were, and we staggered on-sick and hungry. "The mountain roads cut our fect, the sun blistered us, and

at night we lay huddled to- gether to keep warm in the frosts.

"After four days we were starving. Some of them were ready to give themselves up for a square meal, But we were getting out of range of pursuit. Sanctuary Found

"We didn't know the roads; we had nothing to gulde us. We wandered hopelessly through a wild mountain country.

"We were getting weak and the cold winds seem- ed to cut into our bodies. "And then

after ten daya' marching

we met a mountain herdsman who told us that we were near the French frontier. He'' showed us the roads to take

The 18. other men in our party marched off one way down the valley;:"We came on alone

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