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Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape

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The Ingenuity of Jones and Hill

The prisoners were able to plant clues, buried a couple of miles away. That fact owes to hill's ingenuity and brilliance with his hands. One of the things hill did was he pried up the long wooden floor boards from r house fashioned them into skis and slipped out. And on a skiing expedition, which the prisoners were allowed to go on under guard, managed to evade his guard - just like a kid on a class trip running off when the teacher is distracted by something else. So the incredible enterprise and ingenuity of all of these men, working with nothing, making a life for themselves,. its so inspiring and so moving that they, under conditions of real privation, managed to make

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