| Show w s ESCAPE BY A BUSE convicts on siamese border gain temporary freedom prisoners after many macy perlis aril and dangers on sea and land secure food by pretending to bo be seeking elephants loridon london three survivors of the iba live convicts who osen escaped pet recently from the And amans told tho the rm arkal story of 0 their escape and the adventures which followed it six convicts singh under ande sentence of 15 years a bongalis Ben Bon galla galin I 1 term of seven years and four bur maninga mans nga nka tun nga and nga io ile lu nil all liters lifers andor the charge of 0 two military policemen with two rifles rides an and rounds avam 0 ammunition were sent bent in a forest boat to 0 o a small asdall island in the middle anda man a with seven days rations to fo each convict and the policemen on reaching the island singh nga nning inning nga ilya and ngi tun were eel act to work while the tha two policemen with nga ng po lu and the denagall went up bill in search 0 of a golden bird that la Is highly priced sri in port illarr and has a ready ealo dalo tho the policemen before leaving took off tho the recaptured convicts state their bandoliers bandoleers bando liers of cartridges and laid them with the rifles in tho the bottom of the boat which had been hauled up on the tha beach and made fast po lu who was tho the convict overseer professed to know where birds were to be found in plenty and led tho the police roen men and the bengall into dense underbrush der ler brush then gave theu them i 1 the tha slip lip and rondo made his bla way quickly back to the other men the men got the boat into the water and i rising the sa sail ill started in the tha direction of 0 tho the burma coast A strong wind alti almost lost a gate gale was blow ing when the they left the island but the boat ahl which ch had both sail nail and oara 0 ira proved seaworthy rind and after seven tilty heavy weather they re reached a chod tile the coast only to have thiv boat dashed to piece on oil tho lie rocks thy they managed to savo save what rations wire loft however before the mishap occurred irrett which prevented continuing further along tho the coast no aa was wag intended nga haing nga tun and singh were very III dur ing tho the doyag e to the burma coast po lu and nga who were avert well throughout assumed command ot of the party and took chargo charge of the kum guna and ammunition the men went northward until the food supply gave out and ono one of kf the party returned to ve to buy rice where ho he explained alie he possession of government arms by bk saying baying that they were elephant hunters the party every assist slice ance then struck out for the border which ty they reached affet some weeks hard bard travel privation and delays through three of the party being ill they crossed tho the border their food gave out and on tho the verge of 0 starvation they ire crossed the frontier to the little hamlet pr ot Kyan choung amherst district to try abild get food they went to the house of a cultivator on the ailt outskirts of the town to whom they paid they weve were government elo elephant phaar hunters after they had bad been fed 41 tho the tea bouso boung was sent for to whom they repeated repealed their stat statement emeA lie ite brought them into town and davd them shelter tor for the night I 1 the headman tie adman arranged a abar deer shoot with the two convicts who had guns and next morning shortly after they had bad gone shots were heard but believing their com compau lonn aud and the choung were firing at deer the abren convicts left behind thought nothing of it until some little time afterward four bour durman burman policemen entered chii tha hut the three convicts then learned that po lu and nga bad been shot and were thease themselves yen ar arrested the bondman boadman appears to have been in communication with the tha police from the beginning t |
