●「続・知られざる日豪関係」（４３４）

　〜 カウラ事件とは？ 〜

「脱走」の続き

　At about 2 a.m. a Japanese ran to the camp gates and shouted what seemed to be a warning to the sentries.
　Then a Japanese bugle sounded. A sentry fired a warning shot.
　More sentries fired as three mobs of prisoners, shouting "Banzai", began breaking through the wire, one mob on the northern side, one on the western and one on the southern. They flung themselves across the wire with the help of blankets.
　They were armed with knives, baseball bats, clubs studded with nails and hooks, wire stilettos and garotting cords.

　殆どの警備兵は就寝していたが、発砲の後に非常召集されて配置に付いた。
　日本人捕虜は B ブロック (B Compound)の建物に放火
約400名が収容所北西部から脱走を試みた。